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Zhi Zheng (U. Michigan) “Physics with the same-sign dilepton and multilepton events”
January 9, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Despite of the discovery of a Higgs-like particle in 2012, there are still many unanswered questions. Studying events with the same-sign dilepton and multilepton (SSML) may help to gain insight into those questions. In this presentation, I will give an overview of physics and challenges related to the analyses of SSML events, focusing on the three analyses I worked on, namely, search for beyond standard model physics, studies of ttH and ttW production and search for four-top production with the ATLAS detector. | <urn:uuid:503d77ef-699f-41c5-a877-6e7c8e6a2363> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rpm.physics.lbl.gov/event/reserved-85/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.91102 | 163 | 1.625 | 2 |
Scene IV.The Same. Hall in CAPULET'S
Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse.
Lady Cap. Hold, take these keys, and fetch
more spices, nurse.
Nurse. They call for dates and quinces in
Cap. Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock
The curfew bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:
Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica:
Spare not for cost.
Nurse. Go, go, you cot-quean, go;
Get you to bed; faith, you'll be sick to-morrow
For this night's watching.
Cap. No, not a whit; what I I have watch'd
All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.
Lady Cap. Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt
in your time;
But I will watch you from such watching now.
[Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse.
Cap. A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood!
Enter three or four Serving-men, with spits,
logs, and baskets.
First Serv. Things for the cook, sir; but I
know not what.
Cap. Make haste, make haste. [Exit first
Serving-man.] Sirrah, fetch drier logs:
Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
Sec. Serv. I have a head, sir, that will find out
And never trouble Peter for the matter. [Exit.
Cap. Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson,
Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith! 'tis
The county will be here with music straight,
For so he said he would. [Music within.] I hear
Nurse! Wife! what, ho! What, nurse, I say!
Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;
I'll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste,
Make haste; the bridegroom he is come
Make haste, I say. [Exeunt. | <urn:uuid:c6295cc0-853a-4d38-b566-ab4b6d8284a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://absoluteshakespeare.com/plays/romeo_and_juliet/a4s4.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.837965 | 518 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Cut/mow herbaceous plants to maintain or restore disturbance: brackish/salt marshes
Overall effectiveness category Likely to be beneficial
Number of studies: 6
Background information and definitions
Disturbance can clear dominant plants, maintain light availability and control nutrient levels – and may maintain vegetation in a desirable and/or species-rich state (Hall et al. 2008; Middleton 2013). Therefore, conservationists sometimes want to actively restore disturbance where it has ceased, or maintain disturbance at a site where it would otherwise be lost. Mowing or cutting is one way to do this. This action includes machine mowing, hand clipping, strimming and scything of herbs or small shrubs, or swards of vegetation containing these types of plants.
Cutting itself may be the historic or traditional disturbance that maintains vegetation in a desirable state. For example, in Mexico’s Central Altiplano region, people have harvested marsh vegetation for millennia. Cattails and bulrushes are cut for crafts, construction, animal feed and fertilizer. This allows subordinate marsh plant species to persist (Hall et al. 2008). However, cutting activities may slow or cease as demand for the cut vegetation declines, skills are lost, or cheap imports reduce the economic viability of cutting (Clover 2002).
This action includes evidence for all forms of cutting/mowing in historically disturbed marshes, but bear in mind that the effects might be highly dependent on how the cutting/mowing is carried out (e.g. extent, timing, frequency and duration) and site conditions (e.g. nutrient availability and water levels) (Rolletschek et al. 2000; Russell & Kraaij 2008; Fogli et al. 2014).
Related actions: Use cutting/mowing to control problematic herbaceous plants, whose success is not linked to a change in disturbance regime; Cut large trees/shrubs to maintain or restore disturbance; Reduce frequency of cutting/mowing; Reduce intensity of cutting/mowing; Change season/timing of cutting/mowing.
Clover C. (2002) Grim reaper hangs over reed-cutting industry. Available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1411568/Grim-reaper-hangs-over-reed-cutting-industry.html. Accessed 4 September 2019.
Fogli S., Brancaleoni L., Lambertini C. & Gerdol R. (2014) Mowing regime has different effects on reed stands in relation to habitat. Journal of Environmental Management, 134, 56–62.
Hall S.J., Lindig-Cisneros R. & Zedler J.B. (2008) Does harvesting sustain plant diversity in Central Mexican wetlands? Wetlands, 28, 776–792.
Middleton B.A. (2013) Rediscovering traditional vegetation management in preserves: trading experiences between cultures and continents. Biological Conservation, 158, 750–760.
Rolletschek H., Rolletschek A., Hartzendorf T. & Kohl J. (2000) Physiological consequences of mowing and burning of Phragmites australis stands for rhizome ventilation and amino acid metabolism. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 8, 425–433.
Russell I.A. & Kraaij T. (2008) Effects of cutting Phragmites australis along an inundation gradient, with implications for managing reed encroachment in a South African estuarine lake system. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 16, 383–393.
Supporting evidence from individual studies
A controlled study in 1977–1979 in a brackish marsh in Mississippi, USA (Hackney & de la Cruz 1981) reported that cutting reduced black rush Juncus roemerianus height and dominance, and reduced big cordgrass Spartina cynosuroides dominance. Statistical significance was not assessed. In an initially rush-dominated area, black rush reached a maximum height of 130–134 cm in cut plots, in the year following the final cut (vs 203 cm in uncut plots). Rushes comprised only 39–80% of all plant biomass in cut plots (vs 62–94% in uncut plots). In an initially cordgrass-dominated area, cordgrass comprised only 33–97% of all plant biomass in cut plots (vs 61–99% in uncut plots). Methods: Plots in a tidal brackish marsh, dominated by black rush or big cordgrass, were cut once (1979), twice (1978 and 1979) or three times (1977, 1978 and 1979). Some additional plots were left uncut. Cutting was done in winter and cuttings were removed. The marsh was historically burned, but not since 1973. Vegetation was surveyed from April to November 1979. The study does not report further details of the methods.Study and other actions tested
A site comparison study in 1994 of two reedbeds in a fresh/brackish wetland in Denmark (Kristiansen 1998) found that a recently cut reedbed supported a lower density of tall common reed Phragmites australis with a smaller basal area than a more mature reedbed, although reed diameter was similar in both areas. In a reedbed cut two years before measurement, tall common reed stems were less dense (217 stems/m2) than in a more mature reedbed, cut seven years before measurement (422 stems/m2). However, the diameter of these reed stems did not significantly differ between the reedbeds (recently cut: 2.9; more mature: 3.1 mm). Combining these metrics, tall reed stems occupied a smaller proportion of the more recently cut reedbed (1,497 mm2/m2) than the more mature reedbed (3,014 mm2/m2). Methods: In 1994, vegetation was surveyed around 14 points in each of two reedbeds: one last cut in 1992 and one last cut in 1987. The reedbeds had been commercially harvested for “many years” previously. Most points were around (but approximately 2 m from) greylag goose Anser anser nests. At each point, all reed stems >75 cm tall were counted in four 0.25-m2 quadrats. Twenty stems/quadrat were measured.Study and other actions tested
A replicated, site comparison study in 1998–1999 of 13 brackish reedbeds in southern France (Poulin & Lefebvre 2002) found that cut reedbeds contained a similar number of plant species and a similar live reed structure to uncut reedbeds, but a lower density of dead reeds. Plant species richness did not significantly differ between cut and uncut reedbeds. This was analyzed separately for emergent species (cut: 0.3; uncut: 0.6 species/quadrat) and terrestrial species (cut: 0.2; uncut: 0.5 species/quadrat). The structure of live (green) common reed Phragmites australis also did not significantly differ between cut and uncut reedbeds. This was true for density (cut: 203; uncut: 164 stems/m2), stem diameter (cut: 4.6; uncut: 4.1 mm), height (cut: 146; uncut: 137 cm) and above-ground biomass (cut: 1,853; uncut: 1,291 g/m2). However, cut reedbeds contained a lower density of dead reeds (11 stems/m2) than uncut reedbeds (311 stems/m2). Other structural metrics were not reported for dead reeds. Methods: In May–June 1998 or 1999, vegetation was surveyed in five cut reedbeds (commercially harvested each winter) and eight uncut reedbeds (never harvested, or not harvested for at least eight years). The average salinity was 2–3 ppt. In each reedbed, vegetation was surveyed in 25 quadrats (25 x 25 cm) along each of two transects (250 m long). All standing reed stems were counted. One random living reed stem was measured in each quadrat. Biomass was calculated from density, diameter and height measurements.Study and other actions tested
A replicated, site comparison study in 1999 of eight brackish reedbeds in southern France (Schmidt et al. 2005) found that cut reedbeds contained fewer dead reeds than uncut reedbeds, but that cutting had no significant effect on live reed density, live reed height, plant species richness and non-reed cover. Cut reedbeds contained a significantly lower density of dead common reed Phragmites australis (5 stems/m2) than uncut reedbeds (224 stems/m2). However, there was no significant difference between treatments for live reed density (cut: 198; uncut: 107 stems/m2), live reed height (cut: 129; uncut: 165 cm), total plant species richness (cut: 5.0; uncut: 5.0 species/reedbed) and cover of plants other than common reed (cut: 12%; uncut: 10%). Methods: In late July 1999, vegetation was surveyed in five cut reedbeds (harvested each winter for ≥5 years) and eight uncut reedbeds (not harvested for >5 years). The average salinity was 3 ppt. Vegetation was surveyed in 24 quadrats (50 x 50 cm) in each reedbed. This included counting all standing reed stems and measuring one random living reed stem/quadrat.Study and other actions tested
A replicated, randomized, controlled, before-and-after study in 2004–2006 in a brackish marsh in South Africa (Russell & Kraaij 2008) found that cutting common reed Phragmites australis had mixed effects on vegetation structure after 1–2 years, depending on water levels. For example in the driest zone, cut plots always contained more reeds than uncut plots (cut: 67–68; uncut: 17–28 shoots/1.5 m2), but there was no difference in overall reed volume (cut: 5,150–5,620; uncut: 3,280–6,880 cm3/1.5 m2). In cut plots, reeds were always shorter (cut: 21–23; uncut: 30–35 m/1.5 m2) and thinner (cut: 6; uncut: 8–9 mm diameter). Meanwhile in the wettest zone, cut plots always contained fewer reeds than uncut plots (cut: 3–6; uncut: 68–104 shoots/1.5 m2) with a smaller volume (cut: 180; uncut: 1,190–1,870 cm3/1.5 m2). The low density of reeds in wetter cut plots negates meaningful interpretation of length and diameter. Before intervention, vegetation structure did not significantly differ between plots (averaged over moisture zones; data not reported). Methods: In 2004, eight plots (each 200–400 m2) were established in a reed-invaded marsh on the edge of a brackish lake (5–8 ppt). Stabilized water levels, reduced disturbance from large herbivores and reduced fire frequency likely contributed to reed encroachment. In three random plots, reeds were clipped to ground level in late summer 2004 and 2005. Cuttings were removed. The other five plots were left uncut. All plots were perpendicular to the lake edge so were divided into three moisture zones: dry (flooded for roughly 30% of the study), moist (50%) and wet (100%). Reed structure was surveyed before (late summer 2004) and after 1–2 cuts (late summer 2005 and 2006), in six 0.25-m2 quadrats/zone/plot.Study and other actions tested
A replicated, randomized, controlled, before-and-after study in 2003–2007 in two brackish wet grasslands in Estonia (Berg et al. 2012) found that annual cutting altered the overall plant community composition, but typically had no significant effect on plant species richness or diversity. Over four years of cutting, the plant community composition in cut plots became less similar to that in uncut plots – especially in the wetter of the two grasslands (data reported as a graphical analysis). Cover of 5–6 individual plant species – including common reed Phragmites australis – significantly differed between cut and uncut plots in at least one grassland and at least some measured years (see original paper for data). In most comparisons, cut and uncut plots had statistically similar plant species richness (six of eight comparisons, for which cut: 9–19 species/4 m2; uncut: 8–17 species/4 m2; other two comparisons lower in cut than uncut plots) and diversity (16 of 16 comparisons; data reported as diversity indices). Before cutting and within each grassland, plots destined for each treatment had statistically similar plant communities, richness and diversity (see original paper for data). Methods: In August 2003, sixteen 2 x 2 m plots were established in two degraded wet grasslands. The vegetation was historically grazed, but had not been for the past 40 years. Each summer, eight random plots/grassland were cut (with shears, cuttings removed). The other plots were not cut. All plots were fenced to exclude wild boar. Plant species and their cover were recorded annually (before each cut), from 2003 to 2007.Study and other actions tested | <urn:uuid:b754486f-5e2d-4019-bda8-304c10a3fdc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.conservationevidence.com/actions/3045 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.931575 | 2,897 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Founded in 1959, the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) is a nonprofit music-education organization whose central purpose is to promote excellence in choral music through performance, composition, publication, research, and teaching. In addition, ACDA strives through arts advocacy to elevate choral music’s position in American society.
ACDA membership consists of approximately 22,000 choral directors who represent more than one million singers across the United States. ACDA members teach choral music in public and private schools – kindergarten through senior high school – and at the college and university levels. They conduct a variety of choral groups, including boychoirs, children’s choirs, men’s and women’s choruses, junior and senior high school choirs, college and university choruses, ethnic choirs, vocal-jazz ensembles, and symphony choruses. They also conduct choirs in their communities and in their places of worship.
ACDA is divided into seven geographic regions as well as fifty state chapters, each with its own conventions, newsletters, festivals, clinics, and workshops. Whether at the national, division, or state level, ACDA is structured so that its members can easily involve themselves in the organization’s activities.
ACDA offers conventions at the state, division, and national levels. National conventions are offered in March of odd-numbered years; the seven division conventions take place in February and March of even-numbered years. Through concert performances by accomplished choirs, educational clinics by leading experts, and exhibits by music-industry representatives, ACDA offers its members a diverse and practical forum in which to develop their skills and professional knowledge.
The Choral Journal
The official publication of the American Choral Directors Association is the Choral Journal. This national publication, issued monthly except for June and July, contains articles and columns of a scholarly and practical nature in addition to reviews of newly released CD recordings, books, and printed music. The Choral Journal is a benefit of membership in the American Choral Directors Association. Subscriptions are available to libraries.
ACDA has numerous national committees engaged in advancing the choral profession in its many facets. The committees work in several areas of the choral profession, whether through establishing high performance standards, recommending quality choral literature, encouraging research in choral studies, or advocating the importance of choral music in our society. | <urn:uuid:477306d8-73f0-443d-8934-b9f6ed02e203> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://idacda.org/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961367 | 515 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Developing an AI-based diagnostic algorithm for early colon cancer detection
20 September 2019 | news
BioLizard and Novigenix sign a collaboration agreement to develop an AI-based diagnostic algorithm for early colon cancer detection.
We're excited to announce that we will be collaborating with Novigenix SA to develop an artificial intelligent-based clinical diagnostic algorithm to support the transition of the company’s first Immuno-Transcriptomic RT-PCR based product for early colon cancer detection “Colox®” onto the next generation platform LITOseek. Novigenix is a healthcare company with a mission to improve early detection of cancer and increase survival rates. They are committed to unravelling complex interactions of host immune responses to cancer by utilising novel immuno-transcriptomic technology. BioLizard will aid in the transition of their existing Colox immuno-transcriptomic RT-PCR product onto a new NGS-based platform, LITOseek.
NOVIGENIX NEXT GENERATION TECHNOLOGY: LITOseek™
Seek biomarkers from liquid-based immuno-transcriptomic profiling of immune cells
(Image taken from novigenix.com.)
We will use our extensive expertise in bioinformatics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and data mining to co-develop a unique proprietary clinical diagnostic algorithm for Novigenix LITOseek platform. The LITOseek platform makes use of disease specific gene expression modifications (mRNA signatures) found in blood samples combined with artificial intelligence based algorithms to predict onset and progression of colon cancer. We will co-develop disease specific algorithms integrating mRNA signatures with additional clinical and medical data. Combining mathematical models and machine learning tools we can enable continuous adaptation and improvement of these learning algorithms.
“We’re proud to collaborate with Novigenix which is developing innovative tests for early cancer detection and therapy monitoring,”
– Dr. Gerben Menschaert
“Partnering with BioLizard helps us to fast track the development of our LITOseek platform,” said Dr. Jan Groen, CEO of Novigenix in a recent interview. “Our current Colox customers will strongly benefit from this new development once we launch our new colon cancer test on the LITOseek platform, but it will also fast track the progress of new products that are currently in the pipeline.”
Read more about the press release here.
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Käytämme sivustollamme evästeitä kehittääksemme käyttökokemusta. Jatkamalla hyväksyt evästeiden käytön sivustollamme.
Jotkut evästeistä ovat tarpeellisia sivuston toiminnallisuuden varmistamiseen. Voit kuitenkin halutessasi estää kaikki evästeet selaimestasi. Käytämme analytiikka-evästeitä (esimerkiksi Google Analytics) ymmärtääksemme paremmin kuinka ihmiset käyttävät sivustoamme ja parantaaksemme käyttökokemusta. Käytämme markkinointi-evästeitä (esimerkiksi Facebook ja Google) parantaaksemme esitettävien mainosten laatua ja kohdennusta.
Rauhanomaisia mielenosoittajia uhkaa yli 100 vuoden vankeustuomio Thaimaassa. Vaadi heidän vapauttamistaan.
Peaceful protestors may face 100+ years in prison
Leading pro-democracy activists have been detained, with their bail requests denied, apparently to prevent their involvement in continuing demonstrations. Several members of the group may now face up to 165 years’ imprisonment, under legal provisions on insulting the monarchy (lèse majesté) and sedition. Authorities are targeting them and hundreds of peaceful protesters, including children, with criminal charges solely for peacefully exercising their human rights under laws that have been used to penalise the exercise of the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly.
Authorities in Thailand are prosecuting and detaining peaceful prosecutors, intensifying repression of a peaceful youth reform movement that has held mass, overwhelmingly peaceful protests and flash mobs since 2020 for political, constitutional and educational reform, LGBTQI equality and women’s and children’s rights.
Leading pro-democracy activists/human rights defenders who have played a role in mass youth-led protests for reform in Thailand, are in detention, with their bail requests denied, in an apparent bid to prevent their involvement in continuing demonstrations. Members of the Ratsadon group may now face up to 165 years imprisonment, under legal provisions on insulting the monarchy (lèse majesté), and sedition. Authorities are targeting them and hundreds of peaceful protesters, including children, with criminal charges solely for peacefully exercising their human rights under laws that have been used to penalise the exercise of the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly. They continue to summon and seek warrants to detain protesters across Thailand for sedition, computer crimes, offences to the monarchy, and public assembly.
On 9 February 2021, authorities indicted leading members of “Ratsadon” (The People), a group involved in the organization of protests, with lèse majesté and/or sedition. These charges have characteristically been used by the authorities to penalise peaceful dissent and carry sentences of up to 15 or seven-years’ imprisonment, respectively. Human rights lawyer Anon Nampa, student Parit ‘Penguin’ Chiwarak, activist Somyot Prueksakasemsuk and another activist have been detained at Bangkok Remand Prison and the court has turned down five lawyers’ requests for bail.
On 8 March 2021, authorities also indicted detained sociology student Panusaya ‘Rung’ Sithijirawattanakul, currently held at the Women’s Central Prison, activist Panuphong ‘Mike’ Jadnok and activist Jatupat ‘Pai’ Boonpattararaksa, both currently held at Bangkok Remand Prison, with lèse majesté and sedition. Some 22 members of Ratsadon group have been held. On 15 March 2021 authorities began their trial. Members of the group have reported concerns for their safety in detention, after receiving visits from authorities in the early hours of the morning in Bangkok Remand Prison, allegedly to test them for COVID-19. Former lèse majesté suspects have reported ill-treatment by other inmates in detention, including alleged beatings ordered by prison wardens.
Three of those detained have previously served lengthy prison terms under the lèse majesté law solely for peacefully expressing their opinions. ‘Pai,’ when a law student was imprisoned for nearly two and a half years for forwarding a BBC news profile of King Rama X on Facebook in 2017. ‘Bank,’ then a fine arts student, was sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment for taking part in a play about a fictional monarch in 2013, and Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, served seven of an eleven years’ sentence for publishing a short story he did not author about a fictional monarch. All were held in lengthy pre-trial detention with bail denied.
According to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, at least 77 people in 68 cases, including six children under 18 years old have been charged with lèse majesté – or royal defamation – under Section 112 of the Criminal Code since authorities announced they would resume the use of the charges, in late 2020. They are facing up between 3 to 15 years in prison for a defamation charge, for their speeches or actions at previous demonstrations, where protesters advocated reforms to the monarchy. At least 400 people, including these 75 individuals, have been charged with other provisions often used to criminalise peaceful protests, including sedition and assembly with threat of violence (Sections 116 and 215 of the Criminal Code, respectively), and violation of the ban on public assembly under the Emergency Decree and the Public Assembly Act.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha
Office of the Prime Minister
Bangkok 10300, Thailand
Dear Prime Minister,
I write to express my grave concern that your government is escalating a crackdown on students and other activists in Thailand, with over 400 people, including at least 23 children targeted with charges and criminal proceedings solely for peacefully exercising their human rights, including expressing their opinions on political and constitutional reforms in peaceful protests and social media posts.
It is a travesty that your government is punishing people who have peacefully exercised their human rights and is denying bail to 22 leading members of Ratsadon (the group called ‘The People’), who face charges of violating vaguely worded provisions of laws on sedition and lèse majesté. The refusal of their requests for bail violates the right to presumption of innocence and is against Thailand’s obligations under article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Detaining students including Jatupat ‘Pai’ Boonpattararaksa and student union leaders Panusaya ‘Rung’ Sithijirawattanakul; and Parit ‘Penguin’ Chiwarak, prevents them from preparing for forthcoming university examinations. Members of the group have further reported concerns for their security in detention.
As you will be aware, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention have previously found that your government was arbitrarily holding lèse majesté suspects in lengthy pre-trial detention with bail repeatedly denied. The UN Human Rights Committee and other experts have also recommended Thailand amend or repeal laws that the authorities are using to charge people for the expression of critical and dissenting opinions and participation in peaceful protests, and to end related prosecutions.
I therefore urge you and your government to allow people to fully exercise their human rights including by allowing criticisms of authorities, in line with Thailand’s Constitution and obligations undemr international human rights law.
Specifically, I call on you to:
• Release immediately and unconditionally all those detained solely for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly and pending their release, take adequate measures to guarantee their physical security,
• Immediately drop all charges and criminal proceedings against protesters and others charged solely for peacefully exercising their human rights,
• Amend or repeal legislation to ensure it conforms with Thailand’s international human rights obligations including on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly. | <urn:uuid:75c1b675-5263-46d1-974f-2d2f1a3e49dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.amnesty.fi/vaadi-rauhanomaisten-mielenosoittajien-vapauttamista/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.894122 | 1,781 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Standing upright is complex business and requires a finely tuned set of reflex responses. If these reflex responses fail, blood pressure plummets, blood supply to the brain is cut off, and sooner or later we all fall down.
When the nerves that control the blood vessels are damaged, falls in blood pressure occur each time we stand. This condition – known as orthostatic hypotension – can indicate something more troubling. Evidence is piling up to show that patients with orthostatic hypotension have a much greater risk of developing synucleinopathies – like Parkinson disease and multiple system atrophy. These diseases are caused by the abnormal accumulation of the misfolded protein alpha-synuclein and its prion-like spread to areas of the brain that control movement and cognition.
Orthostatic hypotension can – at times – be difficult to diagnose. Current guidelines teach us, we should measure the blood pressure lying down and see if it falls after 3 minutes of standing. But, not every patient encountered in the clinic meets the 3-minute criteria. Some have what is now known as delayed orthostatic hypotension, and require longer than 3 minutes standing to drop their blood pressure.
As Dr. Kaufman points out, delayed orthostatic hypotension is not a trivial issue. In this issue of Neurology our Autonomic Consortium collaborators in Boston published an article describing the follow-up of their patients with delayed orthostatic hypotension. Within 10-years, blood pressure control gets progressively worse in these patients. But, perhaps most worrisome, is that one-third of patients with delayed orthostatic hypotension, then go on to develop synucleinopathies and signs of brain disease.
Both the article and the editorial suggest that we might need to have more patience with our patients. There may be virtue in waiting more that 3 minutes to detect a fall in blood pressure standing. Autonomic features are now being recognized as early signs of abnormal alpha-synuclein accumulation in the body. Diagnosing this in the pre-motor phase may present a unique therapeutic window – and a chance to intervene early to stop the spread of the disease to the brain.
Read the article here: Gibbons CH, Freeman R. Clinical implications of delayed orthostatic hypotension: A 10-year follow-up study. Neurology. 2015 Sep 23. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 26400576
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Mu, Longjiang; Losch, Martin; Yang, Qinghua; Ricker, Robert; Losa, Svetlana N; Nerger, Lars (2018): The Arctic combined model and satellite sea ice thickness (CMST) dataset. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.891475, Supplement to: Mu, L et al. (2018): Arctic-wide sea ice thickness estimates from combining satellite remote sensing data and a dynamicice-ocean model with data assimilation during the CryoSat-2 period. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123(11), 7763-7780, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014316
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An Arctic sea ice thickness record covering from 2010 to 2016 is generated by assimilating satellite thickness from CryoSat-2 and Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS). The model is based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (MITgcm) and the assimilation is performed by a local Error Subspace Transform
Kalman filter (LESTKF) coded in the Parallel Data Assimilation Framework (PDAF).
The sea ice thickness data (V1.0) are provided north of 65N, starting from 2010-10-01 and ending on 2016-12-31. Note that the record on 2016-12-31 is just the duplication of 2016-12-30, as we did not have the ensemble atmospheric forcing on 2017-01-01, when we did this work at that time. There are 5 records missing also because of the forcing, and they are linear interpolated between adjacent records.
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The system development life cycle (SDLC) is an extensive process that basically acts as the spellcheck function for the world of software development. It has the capacity to flag errors and potential issues in the earlier stages of software creation before they reach the final production.
This is, of course, oversimplifying SDLC. Its purpose is a little more comprehensive than that, and SDLC benefits go beyond “spellchecking” your code. But for the sake of understanding the big picture that is the system development life cycle, it’s best to keep things simple.
What is SDLC?
SDLC is a framework that defines tasks performed at every step during the process of software and systems development. Development teams follow this structure within the software organization. It is composed of a detailed plan discussing how to develop, maintain, test, and replace any kind of software. This methodology is used to improve the quality of resulting programs and the overall development process.
Listed below are the six SDLC methodologies used by software developers, and the sizable advantages you and your business can get from them.
Even though it’s one of the oldest SDLC models, the waterfall approach is still widely used. It features a rigid framework that demands all system requirements be defined from the beginning of a project. Developers can only start the design and development stages once all prerequisites have been identified and categorized.
Once the development is done, the product is then tested against the initial requirements so that any rework can be assigned. Although there are some software companies that find the model too rigid, it’s still a strong solution for different types of projects—particularly ones from government contractors.
One particular advantage of waterfall development is that it allows control and departmentalization. You can set a schedule for deadlines at each stage of development, and products can proceed through the development process one at a time. Development starts from concept, then proceeds to design, testing, installation, and troubleshooting before winding up at operation. Of course, each stage of development follows a strict order.
The Agile SDLC methodology is the opposite of the waterfall model. Instead of treating design, requirements, and testing as major succeeding steps, the agile method makes them ongoing processes. This means they require involvement not only from developers but also from customers and the management.
Typically, work is divided into two- to four-week segments called sprints. Responsible teams are tasked to tackle the main needs of their customers and perform necessary testing as they go through the process.
The Agile SDLC method works best in small organizations, particularly in startup businesses, where flexibility is important. Teams that embrace this model also often apply another agile methodology known as scrum, which allows them to structure more complicated projects. Daily Scrum meetings are held to let the team monitor their progress as they move forward in the project. There is also a ScrumMaster, who is in charge of keeping everyone on the team focused on finishing their goal.
The lean and agile approaches are actually interconnected. Both methodologies prioritize the speed of delivery and constant improvement. The difference is that the lean method is grounded in creating the best practices, where excess effort and waste are considered a huge risk to an organization.
When dealing with projects and software, this lean approach prioritizes reducing waste in all stages – including scope, cost, and scheduling. This is the most compelling and best-suited methodology for any organization that implements strict requirements for hardware.
With spiral methodology, teams are able to adopt several SDLC approaches based on the risk patterns of the assigned software project. It is also a mixture of the waterfall and iterative models of development.
One common challenge that you can expect from a spiral model is knowing the best time to jump into the next stage.
This approach also involves high risk management. Because each iteration begins by predicting and preparing for all possible risks down the road, you can figure out the best way to prevent or eliminate them early on.
Large projects usually benefit the most from the spiral model. It allows development teams to construct a product that’s highly-customized, incorporating user feedback early on in the process. Additionally, businesses that are not yet certain about their requirements – or perhaps expect huge edits during their project – can greatly benefit from this method’s scalability.
Related Content: A Quick Start Guide to the Spiral SLDC Methodology
Mentioned earlier, this approach initially takes the waterfall method and cycles through it multiple times – but in small increments. Instead of stretching the whole process across all stages of the SDLC, each phase is categorized into different mini-projects. Each of those projects can add more value to the bigger output as the product continues to evolve.
The iterative methodology has a lot in common with the agile SDLC model when it comes to goals. The only difference is that external customers are not too involved and the scope of all increments are generally fixed, so teams do not have a lot of flexibility on this part.
Compared to other SDLC methodologies, the iterative model creates a working version of the project earlier on in the process. This makes it a bit less expensive to implement any future changes. One downside, however, is that this method’s repetitive processes can use up your resources more quickly than in other approach.
One of the most current SDLC methodologies used by IT organizations and software companies right now is DevOps. As the name suggests, the goal of DevOps is to gather teams of developers together with operational teams for a much faster support and delivery process.
In this method, both developers and operations team work together closely – sometimes even forming a single team. The purpose of this model is to create faster innovation and deployment of higher-quality software products and functionalities. While the product updates are small, they are done frequently.
The hallmarks of this model are discipline, constant feedback and improvement, and automation of manual processes. An advantage to this method is that organizational risk is reduced while changes become more fluid. The only requirement for this arrangement to succeed is that teams need flexible resources.
Choosing the Best SDLC Methodology
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Sindh Community Mobilization Program
Reforming Education in Sindh
USAID and the Government of Sindh established the Sindh Basic Education Program (SBEP) to improve educational outcomes by increasing and sustaining student enrollment in primary, middle, and secondary schools. We implement the Sindh Community Mobilization Program (CMP), a central element of USAID’s SBEP investment. We work to increase community and private-sector involvement in school reform and strengthen local coordination to improve student opportunities.
Efforts focus on engaging the community to increase local support for improving schools. We work with school management committees to build leadership and planning capacity. Teams help management committees create community dialogue around consolidating and updating schools—encouraging contributions to school design and development of management plans. This collaborative approach has helped involve school officials, parents, teachers, and community members in the development of construction plans for 106 schools.
Increasing Girls’ Enrollment and Women’s Participation
When the Sindh Basic Education Program began, 30% of school-aged children in Sindh were not enrolled in school. At the same time, more than 50% of women in the province were illiterate. CMP raises awareness of the impact of low enrollment and addresses the barriers keeping students out of school, with a focus on engaging women.
More than 8,000 community members have been trained on financial management, community mobilization, and the benefits of education—especially for girls. Efforts prioritize bringing women into local decision-making and empowering people to speak up for schools during local meetings. Education officials also receive training on gender mainstreaming and how to effectively engage communities in school issues. We facilitate a small grant program to help schools fund basic facility needs identified and prioritized by communities. Grants have been distributed to more than 300 schools for improvements including washrooms and boundary walls.
Engaging the Private Sector
Recognizing the limitations of government funding, we leverage the resources and know-how of private organizations to support schools. The Government of Sindh’s School Education & Literacy Department introduced Education Management Organization (EMO) reform to outsource management of public schools to private organizations. We work with USAID and the Government to establish these partnerships and foster a collaborative approach to reduce disparities in education access and quality. Our teams also provide technical support to the Government’s Education Department and build internal capacity to ensure accountable program implementation. | <urn:uuid:fc542bd0-1166-4beb-87a6-373154b5dc5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blumont.org/what-we-do/sindh-community-mobilization-program-cmp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95346 | 491 | 2.359375 | 2 |
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Lee Humphreys, chair of the Department of Communications at Cornell University.
We talked about the Internet of Things. Cornell recently received a grant to create a statewide network of interconnected devices. She’s been working with the town of Geneva on installing sensors in the town’s water plant. Imagine roads that can tell us when they’re slippery, a smart toilet seat that warns us we might be having health problems, and more.
We talked about how the IoT began with smart household devices like refrigerators and smart thermometers, where the technology might lead us, and how to keep it safe from hackers. | <urn:uuid:a3c48908-521c-4410-a6ea-11dd084a4d08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fingerlakes1.com/2022/08/03/inside-the-flx-dr-lee-humphreys-from-cornell-on-how-the-internet-of-things-is-changing-our-lives-for-the-better-podcast/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951758 | 135 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Exit plans : Do you have one?
Think of a time when you accepted a job knowing that it wasn’t the right job, but it was “A” job that at least meant income was coming in.
During the recession, this was the reality of many people’s job searches. Jobs were scarce and they were struggling to find work.. a job, any job.
But even if you were one of the lucky ones who landed a job that was actually within your target parameters, smart career managers had already hatched their exit plans for their new job.
So this begs the question: why on earth would anyone plan on leaving a job right after landing it?
Let’s put exit plans into perspective.
Emergency managers and first responders are trained to have their necessary tools ready to go at a moment’s notice. They already have thought about what they need to do in terms of decision making when faced with a quickly changing scenario.
You should, too.
Exit plans don’t mean that you are already rubbing your hands in glee thinking about how you are going to tell a boss “sayonara”… it’s more about thinking for the future.
Wikipedia has a great definition of exit plans: “An exit strategy is a means of leaving one’s current situation, either after a predetermined objective has been achieved, or as a strategy to mitigate failure. An organisation or individual without an exit strategy may be in a quagmire. At worst, an exit strategy will save face; at best, an exit strategy will peg a withdrawal to the achievement of an objective worth more than the cost of continued involvement.”
Too many times, workers get bogged down into quagmires that ends up costing them both physically and mentally. Or they are so focused on what’s directly in front of them that they fail to see the big picture… and opportunity that leads to their goals passes them by.
Some things to take into account when developing exit plans:
1) What is my career goal?
2) How is the new job helping me get to that career goal?
3) At what point will I feel that I’ve reached my potential at this company / job?
4) Does this job give me the salary that I need / feel that I deserve?
5) Does this job offer me the professional development I need to grow in my career and achieve the target goals?
6) Does the culture where I am working feel comfortable and empowered?
6) What organizations should I belong to in order to advance my career goals?
7) What skills / knowledge do I need to add to enhance my expertise to achieve my career goals?
8) What is the deciding factor where I feel like the cost of the job is greater than the benefit?
Answering these questions can help you determine exit plans – but it does require some honest introspection. You need to be clear on what you want, what you need to do to get there, and the steps you need to take in the interim to eliminate the roadblocks preventing you from achieving those goals.
So take a moment to pack your emergency “go-bag” with the tools you need, and formulate a plan on how you plan to exit a company.
First responders know that having a plan is key to organizing themselves to handle different situations.
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Short Story On Adventure Trip
This is an amazing and interesting story. This is a short adventurous story. Once upon a time there lived four best friends in New York City. Their names were John, James, David, and Sophia. They were all getting very bored as their summer vacation had started. John said there is nothing to play and work this summer vacation is very boring. So why don’t we go for a walk in the park? “So why don’t we go for a walk in the park? James said.
“No, that’s a boring idea. Guys, shall we all go to the woods tomorrow, which will be a very adventurous trip.” Sophia said. “it’s a great idea. I love adventure. ” James said. “I also love an adventure,” David said. “Tomorrow morning, we will go to the cold wolf forest. Go pack your bags and have a good sleep. Tomorrow is going to be a big day.” Sofia said.
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The next morning everyone kept some food and water. Also kept some other essential items. Putting the tent items in the car and they all went towards the forest. The next morning everyone kept some food and water. Also kept some other essential items. Keeping the tent items in the car, they all started towards the forest.
They went to the forest and saw the beauty of nature. The forest was very beautiful. Seeing the beauty of the forest and hearing the sound of birds, they started going inside the forest. When they reached the middle of the forest, John saw a big hole in a tree and then told his friend.
When they all reach near that hole, John says that if we want to make our trip even more adventurous, then we should go inside this hole. Everyone agreed to him and one by one they jumped into the hole.
After jumping into that hole, they find themselves in a different forest. In which there were very big trees, animals and birds. Seeing this, all four got very scared and ran back towards the hole. But that hole had disappeared from there.
Then everyone started shouting out loud, help us! help us! Hearing the shouting, suddenly a huge wolf ran towards them. To escape the wolf, they hid in a huge stone crevice. The wolf tried hard to get them out but he failed and left from there.
They sat there, ate something, and drank water, and waited for the wolf to leave. After some time, the wolf left from there. After the wolf left, they went out into the forest to find a way to the city. It was evening while searching a way and they were very tired. So they set a tent under a huge tree and decided to take a rest here. The next morning, he continued his journey again.
As they went into the depths of the forest, it was getting colder and strange sounds were coming. Then suddenly a bird attacked them. The bird grabbed them in its claws and flew away. To get rid of the bird’s claws, David took a sharp object out of his bag and hit it in the bird’s claw.
The bird released everyone and they all fell into a lake below. They all came to one shore after being swept away by the waters of the lake. After some time when everyone regains consciousness, everyone is surprised to see themselves alive.
Then suddenly Sophia sees the tree which had a huge hole. Sophia told friends that I have found the tree due to which we came to this forest. “All run towards that tree before any other animal attacks us,” Sophia said. Everyone ran towards that tree and jumped into that hole one by one. At last, they return to the cold wolf forest.
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In his book on Moses, Martin Buber holds that the Bible story cannot be taken literally yet is not unhistorical: something happened that was, to those people, supernatural or crazy, and the account we have received was their attempt to cope with the experience, to regain their wits, to reconstitute themselves in the world that had been transformed. Reading these interviews from Hiroshima collected by Robert Jay Lifton of Yale, I have no doubt that those people too experienced something crazy and supernatural on August 6, when they were unprepared, thinking of other things, and their senses and passions had to confront existentially what their categories of understanding were not adequate to—this is Kant’s definition of the sublime.
The evidence is clear that the experience was religious, metaphysical. Lifton interviewed about seventy people, uneducated folk like shopkeepers, peasants, housewives, outcast boys; and educated professionals like physicists, sociologists, writers, preachers. There is little essential difference in the reports; again and again we hear the familiar topics of theology. They insist—it is seventeen years later—on the abiding presentness of the event. They refuse to betray the sacred literalness of its detail. The event was Great, some could even speak of a “quicker happiness” in the sense of awakening from the illusions of this world. They are Chosen People. Many have stigmata like marks of the Lord Jesus. They form a mystical fellowship with a mission. They are a sacrifice. They are to be liberators of the out-caste and apostles of peace. They are despised but they are the stone that the builders rejected. They are dead to this world. “The city,” says the Mayor (of Nagasaki), “has been rebuilt under the protection of the souls of the dead.” One must be morally perfect and not sell the experience to money-changers. Indeed, according to some, any speech and self-initiated or socially initiated effort are a profanation. One must safeguard purity by refined taboos, e.g., not wear nylon stockings for they are made by DuPont. Yet since there has been a reversal of values, it is incumbent on people to “despoil the Egyptians,” e.g., to operate on the black market. The matrix of human existence has broken down; there has been a wound in the order of being: one cannot live unless there are a new heaven and new earth. “I saw actual hell in this world.” Traditional religion, Buddhist or Catholic, cannot cope with the new fact. The new dispensation belongs to all mankind. “The A-Bomb represents the termination of Western thought.” But some day the lion will lie down with the lamb—
that those swine in man’s shape
who do not know how to use the power from the earth’s center except for slaughter
survive only in illustrated books for the little ones.
That the energy of ten million horsepower per gram
be delivered out of the atom into the hands of the people.
That the rich harvest of science
be conveyed, in peace, to the people
like bunches of succulent grapes
wet with dew
—this Isaiah-like vision is by Sanchiki Toge. A rainbow will shine after the black rain. Even before the Bomb, in the ordinary past, we were not living—it was a delusion; but a man keeps seeing an indelible still photograph of his innocent childhood: it is fixed—until the new world in which to come alive.
The elect saints, in communion with the dead who are also present because they took part in the real event, are meantime purgatorially trapped in the meaningless interim of current history. Presumably they are awaiting a new prophet who will make possible a transfigured life that is not at all like the politics of Japan or the United States in 1962 or 1968, and not at all like the activity and ideas of Dr. Robert Lifton, Professor of Research in Psychiatry at Yale. While waiting, some sit silent and remember the wrathful theophany; others speak with the dead; others engage in Works which, though imperfect, are appropriate, like the peace movement. A fairly persistent feeling, a theme of novels and movies, is dismay, ranging from anger to nausea, at the arrogant world-view of masterful scientific technology, epitomized by the United States but of which, among Orientals, the Japanese were such apt monkeys.
Death in Life is itself a theological treatise, a meditation on how “to master death.” But the strategy of Dr. Lifton is to rob the elect of Hiroshima of their metaphysical experience in order to argue his own, and incidentally to denigrate any insight and discourage any action that they may have initiated from it. Put crudely, not in the always considerate style of the author, they are a bunch of neurotics and therefore cannot get out of their box. The strategy appears in the first pages. The Japanese term for those closely connected with the Bomb is hibakusha, a coinage meaning explosion-affected persons; they avoid being called “survivors” because, Lifton was told, it emphasizes the idea of being alive. This the doctor at once interprets as entirely “guilt over survival priority”—what right did they have to survive?—and proceeds to write a book on The Survivors of Hiroshima, ending with a chapter on the Survivor (mainly a comparison with survivors of the Nazi camps). Throughout, his harping on the guilt of surviving is extraordinary—he speaks of the “creation of a guilty community” in Hiroshima where, for instance, “nuclear testing reactivated this guilt.” It is an odd way of looking at it, as if it were the people of Hiroshima, rather than some others, who most have to cope with the guilt.
THE BULK of the 550 big pages is devoted to demonstrating the usual psychological defense-mechanisms against trauma: repression, denial, reaction formation, blotting out, hysterical conversion of affect to neurasthenia and hypochondria, screen memory, scapegoating and alibiing, self-hatred in order to avoid the anxiety of abandonment, identification with the power that has harmed one in order to avoid the anxiety of impotence, turning of anger against the self and becoming guilty. More aggressive responses like revenge or political action are put down as mere spite or quite impractical (as well as sometimes being Communist-inspired). The moral in almost every case is that therefore there is no transcendence of the trauma and no adjustment to the world as it is.
The psychoanalysis at this level is pretty good, though routine. It is repetitious but never boring, for the protocols on which Lifton works are endlessly interesting. They are personal histories, dreams, attitudes toward social welfare and other attempted help, economic attitudes, attitudes toward the Bomb-memorials and the new architecture of the city, protests and peace movements, typical leaders, and heroes, novels, poems, and movies. Death in Life is a very ambitious work and recreates a remarkably total traumatized environment. Within the limits of his own situation and character (I shall return to this) the analyst is empathetic. Some critics might object to the customary psychoanalytic sleight-of-hand that gets the patient coming and going: if he mentions something, aha! if he fails to mention it, aha! but I am satisfied that that is how it really is. Occasionally, especially in literary criticism for which he has a flair, Lifton is a more inventive psychologist, for instance when he shows how creative imagination is inhibited by a persisting past actuality, or in his fine appreciation of the elegiac mood that accords with his own.
YET LET ME MAKE a couple of critical objections to the psychoanalysis as such. In the first place, as I read these protocols, Lifton over-rates the importance of the neurotic mechanisms. Much of this neurotic behavior looks like “protection” from psychotic breakdown, or from vital breakthrough into the unknown, what I have called “religion.” (Freud called religion a “shared psychosis”: the crux, of course, is whether or not it is true, whether it works.) The shock of these people was far more intellectual, more surprised, astonished, crazy, dirempted from reality, than he allows. There is remarkably little hate or anger expressed, so I cannot buy the heavy emphasis on self-hatred and guilt; there is almost no suicide; Lifton himself points out that there is little scapegoating. One has the impression, rather, that the enormity of their experience has carried them into an area where they are not sure they have a world at all, so frustration or revenge are not the big deal, but just meaning. Again, Lifton develops at great length the concept of “counterfeit nurturance,” the belief of victimized people that the help and sympathy offered them is not authentic, is not loving of them as persons. This makes sense for oppressed peoples in general, but in the case of hibakusha we can hardly dissociate this suspicion from their being poisoned; they are not sure if there is a Mother Nature at all, or only a witch, and this is a psychotic state of mind.
Secondly, in this study Lifton continually adumbrates a metapsychology to which he will devote a forthcoming volume: the task of health, which he seems to equate with survival, is “to master death,” to achieve a formulation of symbolic immortality. This was, of course, the beginning insight of Otto Rank (who astoundingly is never mentioned in this book). Rank, however, seizes it with great power. He sees—with Spinoza, Kant, and Nietzsche—that the only way of transcending death is to leap, often into the unknown. It is to counter-will; in his phrase, to “terminate the analysis.” To try to “master” death is to be bogged down and not to live at all. Thus, speaking of artists, Lifton hits on, or borrows, Rank’s term “creative guilt,” which he says is “related to death symbolism, to the killing of old forms in order to give birth to the new.” This does exist among weak artists. But to Rank, the “guilt” of art is the anxiety of losing control, losing ego-boundaries, not unlike the fear of orgasm. Since the new is new, one cannot know whether it is acceptable and sane or insane and punishable—therefore artists feed on fame, which accepts them back into the community. Let me say the same thing in theological terms, which I find more congenial: one cannot “master” death; but one can either, like the Buddhists, methodically dissolve the ego and melt into Nirvana, or, like the Christians, foolishly risk agape and hope for resurrection. Immortality is an idol.
But the Mayor of Nagasaki quoted above was curiously Rankian when he said, “The city has been rebuilt under the protection of the souls of the dead.” This is Rank’s concept of the Building Sacrifice, as Romulus killed Remus, in order to have a soul, so the city can have a meaning and destiny. This is hardly guilt about the dead, as Lifton thinks; it is the right use of the dead. The dead are useful by their lives, their souls, not their deaths. This brings me back to the peace movement, the political and religious use of the dead at Hiroshima, the counter-will against the atom bomb and our world as it is. It brings me back, alas, to what is the chief subject of this review: what is it to write a book like Death in Life? what is it as a way of being in the world?
THE SURVIVORS OF HIROSHIMA, Dr. Lifton has shown us, are certainly fucked up, but they are not so fucked up as Dr. Lifton. After all, it is rather much to drop an atom bomb on people and then to come and ask them how they feel about it.
Dr. Lifton is critical of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission’s research center; it should, he says, have been international rather than supported by the Army and the Atomic Energy Commission; it should have done therapy as well as research; it should have been devoted to peace. Inevitably, he says, the Japanese over-reacted; there were protests and strikes; they cried that they were being used as guinea pigs, that the scientists were Svengalis, that the United States was planning more nuclear war. To be sure, some of the protests were “politically motivated.” But did the people over-react? In reality, the ABCC was set up as it was set up, not according to Dr. Lifton’s fantasy. In reality, we have proceeded to magnify and stock-pile enough bombs to wipe out the world, and the present funding for scientific research in this country is overwhelmingly for weapons of destruction. We do treat the various gooks and niggers of the world like things. Obviously the crazy people are more in touch with the reality than the doctor is. Why does not Dr. Lifton protest and strike? (As a matter of fact, the section on the ABCC has seven plaintive footnotes to twelve pages, far beyond the doctor’s usual ratio!) A further detail: when Hiroshima was rebuilt, some people bitterly protested against the grand 100-meter parkway as out of keeping with the old spirit and simply a royal road to the ABCC up the hill, where the guinea pigs, reduced to IBM cards, were driven in plush limousines. Was this paranoia, as Dr. Lifton implies? Is the road not part of the technological package, and are not the people reduced to IBM cards? A repeated tactic of Dr. Lifton is to show that there is a “kernel of truth” in the neurotic response and then to disregard it. But I am afraid that often there is only a kernel of truth in Dr. Lifton’s diagnosis and the rough reality is with the “paranoid.”
By “politically motivated” he means, I take it, that the protest was not against the policy of the ABCC as such, but against the structure of society; therefore it was not bona fide. But what if the policy is inherent in the structure? It is. Assuming that Dr. Lifton is bona fide, we must say he is not bright about this.
He cites a hibakusha moralist: “We have come to the knowledge that we live and die in a common fate. The world, we now realize, is the ship we sail in together.” “The virtual impossibility of achieving this idea,” comments Dr. Lifton, “contributed to his confusion and despair.” What is he saying? Would he, if he gave counsel, counsel him to be realistic and face the facts? But these are the facts. Is it not somewhat demented to be detached in such a case, rather than to say, “Yes. How can I help?” But throughout this book, Lifton’s picky attitude toward the peace movement, toward desperate people acting with a fragment of sanity in a bland storm of madness, is morally problematic indeed. Politically, it is idiotic. At this level, politics has nothing to do with Communism and anti-Communism; it is the people of the world against the Powers of the world.
He comments on the fatal paradox of being Chosen People: “It is derived on the one hand from a sense of unique possession of the knowledge of death, and on the other from being untouchable because of death taint.” No, there is a simpler meaning that undercuts the paradox: “We take our mission seriously. You don’t.”
A MAJOR RECURRING THEME is “psychic numbing,” not noticing in order to survive, which Lifton understands both subtilely and with broad application. Let me quote at length an interesting passage from the concluding chapter:
Examining some of the larger issues surrounding psychic numbing, we recognize it as an important factor in the general neglect of the human impact of atomic bombing. I mentioned earlier my own need, in attempting to study these effects, for at least that degree of “selective numbing” that could be accomplished through focus upon my scientific task. Such numbing was, I suggested, essential to carrying out, the research, as it is to any work which deals with the problem of death, whether performing surgical operations or serving on a Red Cross rescue team. But here too there is the danger of “miscarried repair,” of “professional” and “technical” identifications leading to dangerous degrees of psychic numbing. A grotesque example was provided by the Nazi physicians who conducted brutal experiments upon living human subjects, and by those who conducted the “selections” which directly dispensed existence and nonexistence. To the question of how a doctor could lend himself to such activities, Bettelheim replies: “By taking pride in his professional skills, irrespective of what purpose they are used for.” The doctors in question had to focus upon these professional skills to prevent themselves from feeling. In a more indirect manner patterns of psychic numbing have surrounded the overall creation, testing, and military use (actual or planned) of nuclear weapons: a combination of technical-professional focus and perceived ideological imperative which excludes emotional perception of what these weapons do. It is no exaggeration to say that psychic numbing is one of the great problems of our age.
Because it is so pervasive in our lives, experiences which help us break out of it are greatly valued. This is another reason for the loving rumination by some Hiroshima and concentration camp survivors on painful details of their death immersions. For these memories are unique in that they enable one to transcend both the psychic numbing of the actual death encounter and the “ordinary numbing” of the moment. Similarly, those who open themselves up, even momentarily and from afar, to the actualities of death encounters, can undergo an intense personal experience which includes elements of catharsis and purification. On several occasions members of audiences I addressed on the Hiroshima experience told me later that their involvement in what they heard was so great that they resented subsequent speakers who dealt with more ordinary concerns. Their participation in the death anxiety and death guilt of those victimized had provided a highly valued moment of breakout from the universal psychic numbing.
This is thoughtful—and simply horrible. I do not think the first paragraph is in good faith. A surgeon or a rescue team, acting in an emergency with self-forgetful compassion, can go numb; but for the researcher this sounds very like a rationalization. He does not become numb in order to perform the task, rather he chooses to perform a task of a certain kind, in a certain way, and under certain auspices because he is already numb. And the kind of knowledge that eventuates is what comes from being numb and what serves remaining numb. Here we see, taken for granted, the corruption of autonomous ethical professionals to what I have elsewhere called professional-personnel, as if it were possible to practice the humane professions in this way. But what shall we make of the second paragraph? Have modern times come to this? Surely a man has a duty to revive himself by purging his own numbing tradition, training, and perhaps even Yale, rather than by looking to be moved by other people’s corpses. It seems a sinister use of the dead, to prove to oneself that existence is for real. Instead of compassion, which is a form of denial, we are invited to masochistic identification. With this kind of entertainment it is possible to go on with business as usual, including victimizing. It is a fair description of how “audiences” watch the war news on TV without protest.
If this response is common, and the Gallup and Harris polls indicate that it is, then the black separatists are right, white sympathizers ought to leave victimized colored peoples strictly alone.
Yet Dr. Lifton’s aim is a realistic one, to provide a practical philosophy of life for the American empire in conditions of high technology, when all persons are survivors and the problem, as he puts it, is “to undergo the survivor’s ordeal with honor and dignity. Through records,” he adds, “one can achieve that most difficult level of expression, authentic protest.” The fruit of psychiatric research is a new kind of Stoicism. Effectually we are back to Marcus Aurelius who fought the imperial wars because that was his station and its duties; he did not choose it but inherited it from Trajan and Hadrian and the divine Antoninus. It is also useful to have rituals to purge the damage that one cannot help but cause and see. In this universal purgatory, the difference is trivial between victimizers and victims: “Through the substance of the universe as through a torrent,” says the Golden Book, “pass all particular bodies. How many such as Socrates, Plato, and Epictetus hath the age of the world long since swallowed up and devoured! Of all my thoughts and cares, one only thing shall be the object: that I myself do nothing contrary to the proper constitution of a man.” For Marcus, however, apatheia was not merely psychic numbing, it was not a “problem,” but was the blessed state itself. Perhaps Dr. Lifton will work this out in his forth-coming volume. If so, he will provide a new religion for our scientists and other civil servants.
THE EFFECT of August 6, Dr. Lifton points out, has been contagious and we are all hibakusha, the Japanese, the Americans who came, the scientists of the world, he himself doing his research. Now one group of explosion-affected persons, whom he does not mention, are the young, for instance the students at Yale. An important difference between this group and the others is that they have lived their entire lives in the world transformed by the atom bomb; the possibility, the statistical likelihood, of total annihilation is for them part of the given nature of things. If he would investigate his students’ dreams, I predict, he will find that more than half of the individuals are “explosion-affected,” though, unlike us, they hardly talk about it.
The American young have not suffered “death immersion,” that is not the salient part of the experience. My impression is that two other metaphysical intuitions are more prominent. First, that their lives are built on sand, there is no use of making long plans, for instance seriously preparing for a profession as a way of life. Second, that Science has become evil, they are in thrall to the devil, Thrones, Dominions, and Powers; and this too, of course, negates the possibility of learned professions or a University. Students complain that their education is “counterfeit nurturance,” not attentive to them as persons; rather, they have been fed to the juggernaut.
When Oppenheimer said, “Science has learned sin,” he was making a disastrous theological proposition. Simply, for several centuries the non-rational religions had been losing their force, but this did not leave a vacuum of faith, for there arose at the same time the system of science which everybody believed in, which proved itself by its works, and which indeed was a chief means of discrediting the faiths that it displaced. In practice, for human happiness, the fruits of science were of course a mixed bag, but on balance rather benevolent, probably better than Jehovah or Jesus. For this generation, however, the balance of value has shifted fatally, the cult object has become an object of fright. The gaschambers could still be explained away as the work of an insane fanatic; but the atom bomb was a concerted effort of excellent brains with rational intentions. It is unnecessary to spell out the sequel. The fiendish weapons of the past twenty years (planned and actual) have been drawn from every branch of science from physics to sociology; the “useful” technology is more and more turning into an ecological and cultural calamity; and who can seriously doubt that the advances in genetics, pharmacology, and surgery will be used mainly to implement the provincial prejudices of moral morons?
I am writing this in 1968, a bad season for the Americans. Grave, judicious, and scrupulous, Dr. Lifton is an example of the best of them—I say, them—who at their worst are monstrous. But they are all of a piece.
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Presented by the Australian Music Vault, Sound as Ever sees the Australian Music Vault partnering with young people from SYN Media (Season 1) and RMIT University (Season 2) to produce a podcast discussing and highlighting issues in the contemporary Australian music industry.
A New Wave: Language and Genre Blending
Producers – Elsie Bath and Shejuti Hossain
This episode will look at how genre and language blending in music is creating a new wave of music exploration and creative freedom whilst growing and strengthening community bonds and cultural ties. Artists like Baker Boy and The Fifths are mixing the use of language and genre in their music in a fresh new way that seeks to link their personal histories with their current influence and audience. Talking to broadcaster Namila Benson and the hosts of PBS's All Our Stories, Jess and Leah, this episode investigates how music in this field is not only influencing the Australian music landscape in terms of creativity, but is having a positive influence over social and political issues.Listen to Episode 1
Accessibility in the Australian Music Industry
Producers – Rebecca Maakasa and Bridget Bourke
In this episode we explore the barriers that may prevent some music fans from enjoying live music and investigate how these situations will be overcome in the future. The main focus is accessibility as we chat to differently abled music lovers, also featuring The Hackkets, a local band comprised of members with varying access needs. Hopefully by listening to this episode a more acute sense of consciousness about these issues will be brought to the centre of attention.Listen to Episode 2
Episode 3 - Now That’s Punk
Producers – Erin Dick and Paul Waxman
Beyond the mohawks, piercings and raucous guitars, punk, in Australia, is an attitude. It’s a feeling, present in the disruption and discontent of political discourse. We want to challenge definitions, biases and preconceived ideas about what ‘punk’ was, is and will look like in the near future. Our audience will leave with a new impression of what ‘punk’ can sound like and represent, and how this ethos exists in Australia’s contemporary music scene.Listen to Episode 3
Episode 4 – Healing and Community (Mental Health in the Music Industry)
Producers - Erin Dick and Paul Waxman
We talk to artists, music industry workers and representatives from entertainment industry support organisations about mental health issues in the industry, painting a picture of how music and mental health are intertwined. Hear about current initiatives and the next steps needed to improve the conversation and care around artist and industry wellbeing, together with anecdotal experiences from musicians and support workers regarding these issues.Listen to Episode 4
Episode 5 – Hear Me Roar
Producers – Elsie Bath and Shejuti Hossain
This episode takes a look at the gender inequality in the music industry and the ways in which it influences the work of artists and others in this creative field. Performers Miss Blanks and Lindy Morrison discuss what has changed and what has remained stagnant over the years, describing both the power and difficulties that come from their voices as females. Talking to Elspeth Scrine from the Listen collective, and Broadcaster Tracee Hutchison, the episode not only looks at where this empowerment movement has come from, but the future it is fighting for.Listen to Episode 5
Episode 6 – Youth in the Music Industry
Producers – Rebecca Maakasa and Bridget Bourke
In this episode, we break down barriers preventing young people from participating in the live music scene. Kate Duncan from The Push gives insight into how underage gigs might be revived, and the passionate group of teenagers from New Slang talk about putting on successful music events in Melbourne. We also hear from media producer Josh Martin who grew up in regional Western Australia and compares his experiences of going to gigs in WA to the Melbourne music scene. Joe Toohey, the CEO of Creative Arts Victoria, describes how his lifelong love of the arts was stirred by going to an all-ages concert as a teenager. It is our hope that this episode prompts the music industry to continue to work towards being inclusive of young people so they can enjoy the live music experience.Listen to Episode 6
Music Industry – Dr. Catherine Strong and Dr. Ian Roberts
Journalism – Tito Ambyo
Digital Media – Dr. Ben Byrne and Dr. Darrin Verhagen
The Presets: My People
Dance music with a social conscience
Song: My People by The Presets
Music Industry: Jack Cross, Ethan Bryant & Jameson Clarke
Journalism: Spencer Fowler Steen, Edward McLeish, Steven Otani.
Sound Design: Angelina Crutchfield
This episode of Sound as Ever explores why My People by The Presets represents a watershed moment for Australian electronic music. The song was extremely successful on the charts and had a large crossover appeal, impacting the Australian music scene heavily and delivering a strong message to the world.Listen to Episode 1
Peter Allen: I Still Call Australia Home
An iconic Australian Song
Song: I Still Call Australia Home by Peter Allen
Music Industry: Maree Pearson, Brontë Pitcher and Madeline Kerns Journalism: Stephen Jauw Waludin, Annie-Mei Forster and Rio Davis Sound Design: D.A. Calf
This episode of Sound as Ever explores the elements that contributed to the long-lasting legacy of the iconic Australian song I Still Call Australia Home by Australian singer-songwriter Peter Allen. The song will be discussed in terms of its impact and influence on the Australian culture and the idea of national identity.Listen to Episode 2
Hexdebt: Bitch Rising
A New Wave of Feminism in Australian Punk
Song: Bitch Rising by Hexdebt
Music Industry: Kingsley Siejka, Adrienne Arnot-Bradshaw and Hayden Ryan
Journalism: Catie McLeod, Jonti Ridley and Madi Chwasta
Sound Design: D.A. Calf
This episode of Sound as Ever explores the song Bitch Rising by Hexdebt, a Melbourne-based intersectional feminist/non-binary punk band signed to Poison City Records. In contextualising Hexdebt in the Melbourne/Australian music scene, we’ll explore how the music scene is changing in terms of inclusivity, and how the conversation around gender and neurodiversity has shifted over the years.Listen to Episode 3
Regurgitator: If this is the Blues, Why do I Feel so Green?
The Band in a Bubble
Song: If This is the Blues, Why do I Feel so Green? by Regurgitator
Music Industry: Jasper Bradley, Dan Walkeden and Juan Piflow Journalism: Katie Colston, Linda Liem and Hussan Jama Sound Design: D.A. Calf
Framed by this iconic Regurgitator song, this episode of Sound As Ever explores the creative merit, failures and ultimate success of the Band in a Bubble project, an experimental project that was a blend of reality TV and interactive media that resulted in the album Mish Mash. Whilst a typical blues-rock song at its core, contextualised within the album and reflected against their other works, this song epitomises the genre-defying, innovative and often characteristically unique characteristics of the unorthodox musical group.Listen to Episode 4
30/70: Nu Spring
The creation of new music scenes
Song: Nu Spring by 30/70
Music Industry: Henry Lucas, Philippa Conlon, Zak Boardman & Lucy White
Journalism: Rhiannon Down, Samuel Richards and Hamish Lindsay
Sound Design: Israel Carter
This podcast explores the genre-bending world of Melbourne’s jazz/rap/soul/hip hop fusion scene, specifically its innately free and collaborative nature as displayed by the 30/70 collective and their song Nu Spring. Genre-defying music defined because of its community rather than solely the final product has paved the way for innovative acts and fresh scenes to find their way into the public eye.Listen to Episode 5
Sampa The Great: Black Girl Magik
Exploring stories from new voices in Australian Hip Hop
Song: Black Girl Magik by Sampa the Great
Music Industry: Gabriel Gleeson, Stephanie Rickards, Rielly Haberecht & Jake Kerr
Journalism: Mariam Isa, Carla de la Paz, Ashna Bharkhada
Sound Design: Angelina Crutchfield
This episode of Sound as Ever began with a focus on the themes of identity and belonging, using Zambian born artist Sampa the Great’s track Black Girl Magik, which draws attention to a lack of non-Anglo representation in the culture of her new home of Australia. The story became one of immigration and cultural representation, with a window to the music and stories of African-Australian artists. We highlight the changing direction of domestic hip hop while celebrating a wave of new talent garnering major label attention.Listen to Episode 6
Jacinta ParsonsJacinta Parsons' passion for making radio started when she was 8 years old after her family bought their first ghetto blaster with a built-in mic. She began her radio life at community radio station 3RRR over a decade ago, where she coordinated live music broadcasts and hosted a number of shows including Detour and Breakfasters. Jacinta made the move to the ABC in 2015, working with the Double J team and as Music Director for Local Radio. As well as presenting The New Music Show on ABC Radio, she has produced and presented a number of national broadcast events including a special with Archie Roach & Emma Donovan celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Charcoal Lane album, and the 'Streets of Your Town' specials with The Waifs and Bernard Fanning. She has been a regular voice on ABC Radio Melbourne, heard on Afternoons, Evenings, Breakfast and The Conversation Hour and most recently on the Breakfast program in 2018 with Sami Shah.
Kylie NorthoverKylie Northover has been a journalist for more than 20 years, and has worked as an arts and music features writer, editor and sub-editor across magazines and newspapers in Australia, Hong Kong and London, among them Rolling Stone, The Observer, The Mirror, The Sun and The South China Morning Post. Since joining The Age in 2006, she has worked as an online producer and reporter, deputy editor of entertainment section EG, editor of Melbourne Life and deputy arts editor. She is currently the deputy editor of The Saturday Age’s Spectrum section, a feature writer and television reviewer for The Age’s Green Guide.
Bethany Atkinson-QuintonBethany Atkinson-Quinton is a broadcaster, producer, writer and educator based in Narrm (Melbourne). She is a presenter and producer of The Breakfast Spread on PBS 106.7 FM and her audio documentaries have been featured on multiple broadcasters and podcasts including ABC Radio National, Triple R and FBi Radio. She is the former Victorian State Coordinator of All the Best and has produced podcasts for The Australian Red Cross and independent podcasts Audiostage and Her Game. She sits on on the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia's board as The Women’s Representative. Beth is a seasoned facilitator and moderator and has taught radio, podcasting and audio storytelling across Australia’s leading cultural organisations and festivals including The Walkley Foundation, Arts Centre Melbourne and Melbourne Writers Festival. In 2016, she created the PBS Access Training Program, a broadcast training program aimed at increasing participation of women and gender diverse people in music broadcasting. This year she was selected for Footscray Community Arts Centre's Emerging Cultural Leaders program and the Foundation for Young Australia's Young Social Pioneers program where she is developing Broadwave - a curated network of Australian podcasts telling community-driven stories which will launch in 2018.
Beth’s work focuses on developing emerging artists, sparking conversation and producing work that centres community, art, identity and intersectional feminism.
Julz HayBack in 2006 Julz achieved her Honours in Recording Arts and has been an audio nerd ever since. She loves the spontaneous element of live recording and podcasting. She has worked for the Multimedia department of the NGV where she recorded many and varied podcasts. Julz has volunteered her Tuesday nights for the last 6 years to panel Superfluity on Triple R. Julz also likes a laugh, producing comedy and recording stand-up shows around the globe at international and local comedy and fringe festivals under Julz Hay Presents.
Rebecca MaakasaRebecca Maakasa (aka ‘Becs’) is a motivated young media maker and recent graduate from RMIT’s Media program. Rebecca has co-hosted SYN 90.7fm’s flagship local & Australian music program The Hoist which earned her a nomination in the Best Interview category at SYN’s Annual Awards in 2017. She has a keen passion for radio and audio, and also has experience in social-media marketing and photography. Rebecca is a current presenter of 3RRR FM’s program, Room with a View where she has evolved her love for the on-air experience by panelling, producing, and hosting. If Rebecca’s not chasing an interview you can find her checking out the latest gallery exhibit at the NGV, or searching for Melbourne’s best dirty chai-latte.
Bridget BourkeBridget is a budding sound engineer who shares her love of music over the airwaves at SYN 90.7FM, Melbourne’s non-for-profit media organisation run for and by youth. Being involved with SYN for over a year, Bridget has spent most of her time spinning the freshest hits from around the globe on New & Approved and sharing her love for new Aussie talents on the Australian music show, The Hoist. These opportunities have let her experiment and practice various styles of presenting to make the content she’s involved in the most engaging, educating and inclusive it can be. Bridget has had the opportunity to chat with some of Australia’s most talented musos, like San Cisco, Meg Mac, Golden Vessel and many more. While finishing up her sound production studies at RMIT University in 2017, Bridget has spent the past year as SYN’s Events Manager, organising gigs and fundraisers around Melbourne that showcase the best young local talent. She is passionate about all things music and is excited to share her explorations and discoveries with Australia.
Elsie BathA freelance journalist, photographer, video and audio producer and general creative from Melbourne with an interest in capturing all our varied experiences and personal stories. Elsie enjoys finding and telling unique tales with a keen interest in humanitarian, social, environmental issues and quirky stories from around the world, which are not only interesting and captivating but essentially informative of our human nature. She aims to make a difference in the way that people think about certain issues and members of the world community, by expanding our knowledge and views surrounding certain topics, raising awareness and sparking conversations. Elsie believes that if a story is interesting and accessible in the way it’s delivered, that it has the ability to have a greater impact on its audience and the world. Contact Elsie @elsiejeanbath on Twitter or Instagram.
Shejuti HossainShejuti is passionate about discovering and sharing music. She is particularly interested in learning about the influences and stories behind artists and their songs. In the past, Shejuti was one of two hosts on the SYN seasonal radio broadcast program The Thread, where various artists and genres were explored with respect to inspiration and their contribution to the music world. Shejuti considers herself lucky for living in a vibrant city like Melbourne and is always keen to explore the music that comes out of it. Through the Australian Music Vault Sound As Ever podcast, Shejuti will explore culture blending in multilingual Australian music, as well as powerful women in the music scene in Australia.
Erin DickErin Dick is a Melbourne-based writer, broadcaster and content producer. She is a graduate from Collarts' Entertainment Journalism course, and is currently a year into a Bachelor of Communication (Media) at RMIT University. She began volunteering with SYN Media in early 2016, and has since contributed to a broad range of audio, written feature and social media content. She is the 2017 Executive Producer of The Naughty Rude Show, SYN Nation's flagship youth sexuality, relationships and identity program. Erin has a not-so-secret obsession with professional wrestling, having written and edited for a number of publications, including VultureHound and Steelchair Magazine UK, WhatCulture.com, Junkee Media, and Melbourne City Wrestling. You can contact Erin @eztweener on Twitter.
Paul WaxmanPaul Waxman is wrapping up the second year of his Bachelor of Arts, with majors in Journalism and Film/Screen Studies. Taking the former half of his studies more practically, Paul has been volunteering at two radio stations for over a year, Radio Monash, the Monash University digital radio station, and SYN 90.7 FM. Radio Monash saw him producing an album discussion show, playing and analysing full albums. At SYN, he produces the station's flagship comedy program In Joke and produced the (for some reason) cult-hit Questionable Love Song Dedications, a radio show and podcast that landed on the front pages of iTunes and Spotify, with 564 subscribers and over 12.5k listens in Australia alone. Paul also writes for Beat magazine and has a keen interest in music (with far too many vinyl records for his bank account to cope with). You can contact him @paulparkmusic on Twitter.
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Bandwagon is an annual national music competition for budding artists.
It's a staged competition that starts with local newspapers reaching out to bands. Bands tip off their fans through social media to vote for them on the site. Local competitions are held and winners are promoted on to regional and national finals. In 2012 – 720 artists contributed 1742 songs.
We're really happy about what Bandwagon is doing and how it delivers on its premise. It's a social activity system that works as advertised. It delivers a younger demo to local media, content to newspapers, attention and streaming revenue back to local bands and a significant reward for the winner.
Supercolluder for the gig economy
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Own a small slice of Norway
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Friendly community for the Norwegian cultural fringe.
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At the Seattle Junior Hockey Association, hockey is more than a game. Hockey develops lifelong skills, friendships, and a love for sports. Here are some frequently asked questions about our association, hockey in the state of Washington game, how SJHA provides one of the best youth sports experiences available to your family.
1. How do I start playing hockey?
Seattle Junior currently runs a year-round Beginner Hockey program that is broken up into four season sessions (Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring). The Beginner Program covers the basic skating and stick skills for players to graduate to a full season team within 16 weeks. For those who are trying to learn the game before 10 years of age, you will follow our Hockey 1 and Hockey 2 pathway. For those 10 years and older, you will follow our Late Start to Hockey pathway. Read more on these pages for specific program details.
2. What if I, as a parent, don't know anything about hockey?
You don’t need to know anything! (Except to dress warm for the rinks.) Our hockey community welcomes new parents all the time with open arms. You’ll have the opportunity to make new friends in the stands and learn more about the sport. Seattle Junior will also provide you with newsletters, parent meetings, and more to keep you in the loop about hockey happenings.
3. What happens after Beginner Hockey?
After you have completed either Hockey 1 and Hockey 2 or Late Start to Hockey, you may join a full season Recreational (Rec) team.
4. Rep vs. Rec?
The state of Washington has two designations for hockey programming: Representative (Rep) and Recreational (Rec). Here are the main differences between Rep and Rec hockey:
5. What is Mitey Mite? What is Mite?
There are two options for 8U hockey: Mite and Mitey Mite. Mitey Mites are players (8 and under) that have completed Hockey 1 and 2 or have been recommended by the Beginner Hockey Director to matriculate early. Mitey Mites (2hrs a week) practice once a week and play an in-house game once a week for the duration of the season. Mites are players (8 and under) that have completed Mitey Mite or have been recommended by the Mite Coaching Staff to matriculate early. Mites (3hrs a week) practice twice a week and play a modified travel game schedule (never outside the greater Seattle area). Check out our Program Pathways page for specific prices.
6. What are the specific registrations?
For Rep hockey players, a registration link will be sent to you when you have been offered a spot on one of our teams. For Rec hockey players, please register for the season here.
7. Are coaches qualified?
All Seattle Junior coaches receive annual, age-appropriate training and certification from USA and the United States Center for SafeSport. This creates a safe environment, where every child receives the proper instruction to play hockey. Additionally, Seattle Junior coaches receive quarterly professional development workshops through Seattle Junior’s Coach Speaker Series. Coaches will be exposed to off-ice trainers, nutritionists, sports psychologist, expert coaches, and leadership trainers to constantly add tools to their coaching craft. We promote a growth mindset at Seattle Junior and our coaches are the keystone to establishing this with their players and families. Also, coaches will be observed multiple times throughout the season by the Hockey Director to sharpen their practice themes, instruction skills, and receive positive feedback about what is working too.
8. What about girls’ hockey?
Hockey isn’t a boy’s sport. Seattle Junior’s Lady Admirals program offers competitive teams for girls 11 and older. Girls 10 and younger are welcome to join our Girl’s Club program which meets bi-weekly for all girls’ skates and other fun events.
9. What if I'm still not sure about hockey?
Seattle Junior offers four Try Hockey for Free events each year with no strings attached. Come out, give it a shot, and witness your child’s smile first hand!
10. When does the regular season start? Are there other dates I should know?
Seattle Junior teams begin practicing the week after Labor Day each season. All important dates such as tryouts, camps, clinics, and other opportunities will be housed on our calendar page.
11. I already paid for my child’s hockey registration. What are these other charges?
In order to be registered with Seattle Junior, you must be registered with USA Hockey. Both USA Hockey and the Pacific Northwest Amateur Hockey Association (PNAHA) require annual registration fees beyond your dues to SJHA to provide insurance for all players, coaches, and volunteers within the organization. You may also be approached about a “Slush Fund” from your team’s manager. Typically, SJHA managers or treasurers will also collect a “Slush Fund” that will pay for team events like tournaments or parties as well as other miscellaneous items that SJHA cannot not pay for including coaches’ travel fees, coaching stipends, and team gifts.
12. I have a problem, a question, a suggestion, a desire to give kudos... who do I talk to?
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In response to growing concern about e-cigarette use by children and teens, the FDA has intensified its enforcement of illegal sales and advertising of new electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) such as Juul, myblu and KandyPens.
The FDA has stated it is committed to decreasing smoking and nicotine addiction in youth under the age of 18 and has launched several initiates to achieve this goal. One is a multi-level plan to reduce nicotine in traditional, combustible cigarettes. This plan, which seems long overdue, does not appear to include reduction in nicotine available via ENDS devices, despite that some deliver as much or more nicotine than cigarettes. The FDA also neglected to extend its ban on the use of sweet, fruity flavors that appeal to children and teens. Juul, for example, comes with fruit-flavored liquid pods containing the nicotine equivalent of a full pack of cigarettes.
Juul has recently become very popular with school age children prompting educators and medical professionals to call it a major teen health problem. The light weight device that looks like a thumb drive is easy to hide, easy to share, and apparently easy for underage kids to buy in retail stores—including online. This is disturbing because, as the FDA admits, “nicotine in these products can rewire an adolescent’s brain, leading to years of addiction.” In a Kaiser Health article, substance abuse counselor, Milagros Vascones-Gatski, stated she had “never seen a tobacco product become so popular so quickly.”
The FDA, which is responsible for protecting the public health, might have been able to prevent Juul fever had it not backed off its 2017 plan to implement FDA product approval over e-cigarette products. Instead, the FDA pushed product oversight off to the years 2021-2022 to award more time for review of potential harms, and ostensibly to prevent a chilling effect on the vaping industry. The industry that is projected to be worth over $32 billion dollars a year by the time product applications will be required? That choice makes little sense to teen health advocates and educators who daily observe smoke billowing out from behind desktops and bathroom doors in schools.
To be fair, the FDA did institute rules against sales to minors. And this is where they are now concentrating their enforcement efforts. The recent press release listed the following actions to prevent teen access to ENDS devices:
- FDA cites 40 retailers for violations related to youth sales of JUUL e-cigarettes
- Agency announces a new blitz of retail establishments targeting youth sale violations
- Agency takes new action to examine youth appeal of JUUL
- Agency takes steps to foreclose online sales of JUUL to minors
The FDA press release did not specifically address recent research into damage caused by the use of e-cigarettes, including a study that revealed heightened levels of cancer causing toxins in teens who vape. Nor did it address the 2017 USFA/THEMA report that blamed catastrophic injuries from e-cigarette explosions on the devices product design. | <urn:uuid:47eb8f10-a5fa-4514-90e1-90247697bf05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.personalinjurylawjournal.com/product-liability/e-cigarette/fda-clamps-down-on-e-cigarette-companies-selling-to-minors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95087 | 618 | 1.875 | 2 |
Climate change is a global problem. The functioning of all natural components is endangered, including us, human society. That is why we have joined forces with the Ecologi platform, which helps to address the effects of climate change, for example by planting trees or supporting projects in developing countries.
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Acessórios PVC HIDROFIL
Cold water with pressure PVC
FERSIL presents two ranges of PVC piping systems for the distribution of cold water under pressure in buildings, with the main advantages of an excellent mechanical resistance, versatile and ductile, which makes them easier to handle.
- FERSIL PVC-U Pressure EN ISO 1452 is a complete range of pipes and fittings in grey colour, with sockets for adhesive jointing system. This range meets the requirements from the standard for the application area W - water supply for human consumption. It is applicable for cold water installations inside the building structure (domestic systems) with watertight and pressure resistant joints.
- FERSIL TH is a complete range of PVC pipes in grey or blue colour, for use with PVC or brass threaded fittings. It is applicable for traditional cold water installations inside the buildings or for industrial use. This system with dimensions in inches (BSP - British standard pipe) is based on the old standard BS 3506 and is oversized in wall thickness to support the opening of threads, with suitable milling cutters. Thus ensuring extra resistance to hydrostatic pressure and greater durability. Its versatility and ease of assembly allows it to be used in almost all types of hydraulic installations with a low-cost installation technique.
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Dr. Laura Rogers-Bennett completed her Ph.D. in Ecology at the University of California, Davis and two post-doctoral fellowships one at U.C. Santa Cruz’s,Institute of Marine Science and the other at the U. Washington’s, Friday Harbor Labs. Dr. Rogers-Bennett is a Research Associate with the Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center at the University of California, Davis and a Senior Environmental Scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in the Marine Region. She is based at the UC Davis, Bodega Marine Lab where she leads a team investigating marine ecosystem health and invertebrate populations, fishery management and marine conservation in a changing ocean climate. To do this work they use an interdisciplinary approach combining field, laboratory and quantitative modeling to examine questions related to wildlife health, ecosystem tipping points, marine conservation biology, fisheries sustainability and climate change. She has over 50 scientific publications and 10 book chapters on marine issues. She is also a co-PI working on the restoration of the critically endangered white abalone in California. She established a 20-year underwater marine ecosystem monitoring program and has documented the impacts of climate change and the massive marine heatwave of 2014-2015 on kelp forests and abalone resources in northern California.
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The Seville weather It is continental Mediterranean. With almost 3,000 hours of sunshine a year we can say that the weather is excellent all year. The average annual temperature is 18ºC, which makes it one of the hottest cities in Europe.
From summers very dry and especially hot, in July there are daily temperatures of 35ºC, reaching 40ºC on many occasions.
The winters They are cold but without snowfall. January is the month with the lowest temperatures, with a minimum of 5ºC, very rarely they can go below 0ºC. Rains are concentrated in winter, especially in December.
Spring Y autumn They are the best times to visit Seville. It is not usually necessary to wear warm clothes, but it is necessary to wear very light clothes of natural fabrics, hat and sunglasses to protect you.
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Things To Look For in a High-Quality Auger
An auger’s primary function is to drill holes, whether they’re in wood for carpenters, soil for gardeners, or foundations for construction. These holes play a critical role in all these industries, so your augers must be of quality make. Here are a few things to look for in a high-quality auger.
Define the Job
When it comes to auger tooling solutions, the criteria you judge augers on will depend on the job you need it for. You’ll notice that the design of augers can vary wildly depending on the industry they’re in. This makes sense because they can exist as small hand-held gardening augers to the massive machine-operated augers for foundation drilling. Once you’ve identified your needs, you’ll be able to slim down your options dramatically to augers that possess the right traits and designs. At Jeffrey Machine, you’ll find that we offer industrial augers suited for drilling through dirt, rock, and more in foundational drilling.
Two physical traits to look for in an auger are the width and length of the blades. These will determine the depth and width of the holes it creates, with a longer blade resulting in a deeper hole and a larger diameter creating a wider hole. These qualities will be crucial in ensuring you buy an auger capable of fulfilling your needs.
Augers are heavy-duty tools that undergo lots of stress and pressure to fulfill their purpose. As a result, you should prioritize durability to ensure you don’t receive an auger that dulls or breaks on you. User reviews are often a good place to gauge the durability of an auger without trying it yourself. However, every auger will eventually dull. But something to look for in a high-quality auger is the ability to send the auger in for repair and have it restored to a state that’s nearly as good as new. | <urn:uuid:c5dc04c0-3d54-4d4c-b809-012feae3e1f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jeffreymachine.com/blog/Things%20To%20Look%20For%20in%20a%20High-Quality%20Auger | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.931498 | 421 | 1.703125 | 2 |
If you watched the film Selma, you met Diane Nash when you saw her driving with Martin Luther King, Jr., into the Alabama town early in 1965. King’s organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, had just begun to stage demonstrations to illustrate the need for federal forces to protect African-Americans exercising their right to vote in Selma, and throughout the former Confederacy.
Nash, somewhat surprisingly, stays in the background throughout much of the film—though an FBI field report excerpt flashed on screen does include her name. She could very well be mistaken as simply being activist James Bevel’s stunningly beautiful wife.
A film has its own narrative needs, and I understand that this one very much wants to remain focused on King. But when I saw Selma, I couldn’t help but think of the hundreds of people laying the groundwork for the demonstrations and developing the strategy months or years before the charismatic leaders and the news cameras showed up on the scene. Nash was one of those important trailblazers—she was the main reason King and his organization were there in Selma in the first place.
I first learned about Nash watching Eyes on the Prize as a college student in the late 1980s. She comes across as one of most extraordinary figures to arise in the student movement. Remarkable footage captures Nash leading a march in Nashville that culminates in a face-to-face confrontation with Mayor Ben West, who’s compelled by Nash to make a grudging admission that he felt segregation was morally wrong. I marveled at this forceful, determined woman who was about my own age, but had a will that far exceeded mine. I’ve come to know her better in recent years as she’s advised a number of civil rights history programs I have created for the Smithsonian Institution.
What strikes me about Nash as she talks about the racial problems she saw a half century ago (and still sees today) is the powerful anger at injustice that she channeled into non-violent direct action. Hers was an anger tempered by reason, strategic practicality, and a principled belief in peaceful activism. That holds true for many of the veterans of the civil rights movement whom I’ve met: When I hosted Rosa Parks on a tour of the Henry Ford Museum outside Detroit (the eventual home of the bus on which she refused to give up her seat to a white man), she didn’t seem the quiet and composed “Mother Rosa” when talking about injustice. She seemed pissed off.
For Nash, it was the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church in September 1963 that galvanized her into taking action on voting rights. The tragically famous church where four young girls died going to Sunday School had been a training facility for the Birmingham “Children’s Crusade” organized by Bevel.
Nash and her husband had been wrestling with the fact that their activism put people’s lives at risk ever since they became involved in the civil rights movement in 1960. When integrated groups of young men and women organized by the Congress of Racial Equality to ride buses into the South—the Freedom Riders—got beaten and firebombed by Klansmen in Alabama in the spring of 1961, Nash, a co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, could have just decided it was too dangerous and stayed away since it was conceived by another civil rights organization. Instead, with Nashville student organizers Bernard Lafayette and (now congressman) John Lewis, she recruited volunteers to continue the rides. When news reached Washington, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was eager to keep embarrassing racial violence off the front pages, demanded, “Who the hell is Diane Nash?” and asked his assistant to stop her. But the 23-year-old had made her calculations: The movement was more important than the lives of its organizers.
“If we allowed the Freedom Ride to stop at that point, just after so much violence had been inflicted, the message would have been sent that all you have to do to stop a nonviolent campaign is inflict massive violence,” she remembered.
So when the bomb exploded in Birmingham, Nash told me that she decided that “a grown man and woman with respect for themselves could not let four little girls be murdered and not do anything about it.” They discussed finding those responsible for the bombing and killing them, but decided their efforts were better directed at getting blacks in Alabama the right to vote and changing the faces of those in power. It was possible to upend the power structure in the state’s “black belt,” where a majority of the county’s population was African-American, if not yet making their presence felt in elections. Of the 15,000 or so black people of voting age in Dallas County (where Selma is located), for instance, fewer than 150 were registered to vote.
Nash and Bevel also knew there had been local activists in Selma who would be willing to protest and put their bodies on the line, and so they conceived a step-by-step plan that they presented to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Nash may not have literally driven King into town, but she did bring him there in a figurative sense. She was a leader of the negotiating the tense relationship between SNCC and SCLC, addressed demonstrators at Brown Chapel AME Church (the Selma campaign’s headquarters), planned out where protesters would go and when, and organized logistics. When the tear gas and clubs rained down on the peaceful marchers as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge en route to Montgomery on what came to be known as Bloody Sunday, Nash sent runners out to get the medics. As the final march reached Montgomery, Nash marched the last few blocks with King. In August, after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed, King conferred on her and Bevel the SCLC Freedom Medal for conceiving of the crucial Selma campaign.
Nash’s story reminds us that the Civil Rights Movement wasn’t just about the names in the headlines, but also about the legions of humble citizens on the ground who took action at great risk to themselves. As for Nash, now in her 70s, she is still determined to remind us that this isn’t all ancient history with a tidy beginning, middle, and end—even after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
“That 10 minutes that people spend in the voting booth every two years is not enough,” she told a crowd at the Smithsonian in 2011. “I think back sometimes and wonder if we in the civil rights movement had left it to elected officials to desegregate restaurants and lunch counters, to desegregate buses … I wonder how long we would have had to wait. And I think, truly, that we might still be waiting.”
Christopher Wilson is director of the program in African-American history and culture at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He is also director of experience and program design and founded the museum’s award-winning educational theater program. He wrote this for What It Means to Be American, a national conversation hosted by the Smithsonian and Zocalo Public Square.
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Competing for olive oil
A Panathenaic prize amphora
Sacrifice before battle
An ancient Greek ritual
The phallus and the Evil Eye
Phallic amulets in the Roman world
A face from the past
A plaster head from Mycenae
A temple for all the gods
The Pantheon in Rome
Drink, talk, and praise the gods!
Cultural aspects of the Athenian symposium
A portrait of Apollo?
Examining a black-figure olpe in Rhodes
The cemetery at Armenoi
A Late-Minoan archaeological site
Shut up, woman!
The Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla and their impact
From blue boy to blue monkey
Reconstructing a fresco from Knossos
Cult and multiculturalism
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Housing First model improves overall well-being, study finds
A nonprofit organization that provides permanent supportive housing to low-income, physically or mentally disabled families, and long-term homeless families in Kent County has released a study that shows its programs improve the well-being of families. consumers over time.
Grand Rapids Community Rebuilders hired public sector consultants to conduct a Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Assessment Report, prepared this spring, which evaluated a sample of 47 Kent County households that were served by Community Rebuilders’ PSH programs.
Since funding for the full assessment was provided by a grant from Spectrum Health Healthier Communities, most of the households included in the sample size – 35 – were located in the targeted neighborhoods of Spectrum Health Healthyier Communities (see graph), which are 17 census tracts of income on the west and southeast sides of Grand Rapids.
Heads of household in the 47 families included in the assessment were disproportionately black or African-American, predominantly female, and generally middle-aged. The households studied are all current clients of Community Rebuilders and have remained housed since entering the program – from 21 days to almost 21 years, with an average duration of over three years.
The study showed that since access to services, the households served not only obtained stable, safe and affordable housing, but also experienced an increase in their income (35%); better health (53% improved their physical health and 28% their mental health) and better access to health care (51%); increased access to food (51%) and transport (50%); and greater general well-being and greater customer satisfaction.
Anna Diaz, vice president of Community Rebuilders, said the PSH programs her organization offers – which include Housing Solutions, Heroes, LOFT and Shelter Plus Care and offer long-term rental assistance and other support services – are designed to make roaming rare. , brief and non-recurring.
Community Rebuilders takes a âHousing Firstâ approach, in which participants do not need to address other issues or complete treatment before being housed. This compares to a âhousing readinessâ model used by some non-profit organizations that require people to learn certain skills or meet certain benchmarks before moving into housing. The Housing First approach prioritizes providing permanent housing to homeless people, to give them a stable platform from which they can pursue their personal goals and improve their quality of life. life.
Diaz said that Community Rebuilders’ approach of finding housing for clients first, and then working with them through case management to resolve their other issues, makes a lot of sense, as the organization aims nonprofit works with the county’s most vulnerable populations who cannot access things like insulin. for their diabetes, unless they have a refrigerator to store it or social security income / social security disability income if they do not have an address the government can send checks to and other communications.
Community Rebuilders’ PSH programs are funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which has established criteria for safe, decent, and hygienic housing, as well as a housing affordability standard that states that consumers do not pay more than 30% of their income on housing so that they can also pay their other bills. Community Rebuilders then pays the difference using the HUD funds.
The gross monthly rent for housing units rented by families in the evaluation population for the study ranged from $ 623 to $ 1,462 with a median of $ 817. With rent subsidies, the tenant portion of the rent ranged from $ 0 to $ 448 per month with a median of $ 88 per month. In comparison, the average median monthly rent in the 17 census tracts included in the NOF zone is $ 920. In Grand Rapids the median monthly rent is $ 925 and in Kent County the median rent is $ 899 per month.
Diaz said there is a pervasive misconception that homeless people do not want housing or are not ready for housing, when in fact, it is often just the opposite. Community Rebuilders provides consumers with a choice of housing, helping them find housing where they want to live – maybe it’s somewhere close to their existing social support networks or somewhere far from the neighborhoods they have trouble with – and customers are eager to accept it.
âWhat we have learned through our work is that when you offer a choice of housing and help consumers understand that they are the experts in their lives, and we are there to support them, to many consumers, this is the first time they have ever had this opportunity and are very happy to be able to start finding accommodation on their own, âshe said. “We offer case management services to help them navigate the housing market, discussing your housing needs and preferences?” Where do you want to live? Is there a place you want to get away from? (Help them) understand that we have federal program funds, so housing has to be under fair market rents, and what does that affordability look like to them? And that’s just the start of this case management service.
She said the PSH model takes a strengths-based approach that honors consumers and empowers them, and she thinks this report proves that it’s also effective. If the head of the family continues to reach the income and disability thresholds that prevent him from keeping his home alone, he can continue in the PSH program indefinitely.
Community Rebuilders shared the report with Spectrum Health Healthier Communities, as well as its email subscribers, and Diaz said she hopes the study will put the PSH model at the forefront of people’s minds so that they see that there are solutions that have the potential to end homelessness permanently in Kent County.
In the last published one-time tally (2020), Kent County reported 185 chronically homeless, of which 44 were not sheltered and 141 were sheltered. Thirty of them were chronically homeless housed in households with a minor child, 111 were chronically homeless housed in a household without children and 43 were chronically homeless without children.
âWe believe it can be done, and we believe that having programs designed like what you see here in this report can help end homelessness in Kent County,â Diaz said.
âWe believe this is the recipe for success, but we cannot do it alone. Being able to share data and share information with the whole community only brings more attention to this critical need for homelessness. Any way we can have this as a conversation starter or help with additional funding for the cause is essential. “
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SAN FRANCISCO -- With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, San Francisco voters rejected Prop I which would have put an 18-month moratorium on issuing permits for market-rate development projects in the Mission District. It was rejected with 57 percent of the vote.
Proposition I, known as the Mission District Housing Moratorium, received nearly 43 percent of the vote, short of the majority approval needed to pass.
The measure aimed to impose an 18-month suspension of city permits on market-rate housing developments, as well as demolition of certain properties, and to create a neighborhood stabilization plan in an effort to limit the ongoing displacement of long-term residents from the Mission District.
Two other housing measures on the ballot appear to have passed.
Proposition A, a $310 million affordable housing bond, received more than 73 percent of the vote, above the two-thirds majority needed to pass, while Proposition D, a measure allowing the Mission Rock mixed-use development near AT&T Park to move forward, also received about 73 percent of the vote.
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Alcoholic beverages Withdrawal Signs
Alcohol withdrawal indications are a part of human being physiology and can show small to reality-threatening exercise problems for normal drinkers who suddenly quit.
You will discover a period to get put into practice if a person would like to get rid of Liquor or medicine and as an example, drug and alcoholic drinks rehab centers enter in to the image where care and attention has been taken and addiction treatment california properly-described therapy is given to sufferers.
What Drives Alcoholic beverages Drawback
Problems enjoying is widely pervasive in the United States, and then leave can help guide to unwanted effects like pressure and many more significant diseases like convulsions, hallucinations and harm.
According to a 2008 study through the Nationwide Institute on Alcoholic beverages Neglect and Alcoholism (NIAAA), a portion of the larger sized National Institute of Wellness (NIH), escape from alcoholic drinks can certainly make modifications for the genetic material in the brainiac that triggers signs like stress.
The investigation simulated long term alcoholic beverages performance by feeding informants a water diet plan which includes liquor. When liquor was taken from rats within the manage station using the alcoholic drinks-included diet program, they proved increased anxiousness-like behaviours than rats which were fed a non-liquor diet program.
The two firms have been displayed by having an “elevated additionally-maze” structure with two vacant arms as well as 2 close up arms mounted on a core place. The rats on the intoxicated diet expended more while on closed-left arm exercise in a five-minute evaluating time compared to rats on the non-alcohol diet program. The rats fleeing from liquor had been sealed in the labyrinth.
Symptoms & Timelines
Indicators can occur the moment a couple of hours after the final drink. They generally top inside the first 24-48 hrs of quitting and help guide to by far the most extreme drawback indicators like speedy pulse rate, sleeplessness, differences in blood tension, perspiring, quakes and rage.
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How to Wire a Car Hornby K.K. Lowell
Wiring a horn the right way, whether to replace a non-working horn, or to install a new one to a custom vehicle is a job that a competent do-it-your self type should be able to complete in an hour or two.
Disconnect the negative terminal from the battery.
Using the self-tapping screw, mount the 20-amp circuit breaker in a protected location near the vehicle battery.
Connect one terminal on the circuit breaker to the positive terminal of the battery, using a piece of wire and two solderless ring terminals.
Connect the other terminal of the circuit breaker to Pin 87 of the Signal Stat 192 relay. Use a length of 14-gauge primary wire with a ring terminal on the circuit breaker end and an insulated solderless spade terminal of the relay end.
Connect Pin 87a and Pin 86 with a short piece of 14-gauge wire, having a female solderless spade connector on each end.
Mount the horn. Use a large self-tapping screw, and mount to an area behind the bumper or grille.
Connect Relay Pin 85 with the terminal on the horn, using a length of 14-gauge wire with solderless female spade connectors on both ends.
Mount the momentary contact switch within easy reach of the driver.
Connect Relay Pin 30 with a terminal on the momentary contact switch. Use 14-gauge primary wire.
Connect the other terminal of the switch to a metal part of the vehicle.
Reconnect the battery's negative terminal.
- If your replacement horn has two terminals, the other terminal is to be connected to a metal part of the car or the negative terminal of the battery.
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It was just a few years ago when we wrote: “It seems that YCAB’s growth and international expansion is only just beginning.” YCAB believes that financial independence and self-sufficiency are essential to development, that dignity comes before development, and YCAB works hard to develop vulnerable youth by giving them access to education and economic assistance. Today YCAB is the most effective and influential SGO. Time to reflect on that success.
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Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS (JCN): YCAB claims that it is “now exploring ways to implement the last link in its change model, that is, to create a sustainable system whereby students who graduate and become entrepreneurs or get a job, can pay it forward.” This is an ambitious next step. How did it happen to have that vision? What were the concrete indicators or criteria to ring a bell on that?
Veronica Colondam, YCAB’s Founder & CEO: First and foremost, my spiritual journey demanded me to find the reasons of my existence. It called me to find my purpose in life. It sent me to discover a meaning of life. This “calling” became especially clear to me on my 26th birthday. And eighteen months later, it led me to establish YCAB in 1999. Secondly, as my soul demanded I go into the world and do something, my role as a mother also changed me; it showed me whom I was meant to help. As a mother I learnt that every child has extreme potential. My heart went bleak when I saw so many children were not being given the opportunity to reach their potential, and that they were marginalized by their poverty and deprived of education. Being a mother gave me the conviction to help the dropouts and helpless youth of Indonesia and to equip them to be “mandiri” – the Indonesian word for self-reliant. Lastly, my own experience shaped me to understand the importance of what I was doing.
I just came to understand this around six months ago when I participated in one of the Kennedy School programs for the World Economic Forum’s Schwab’s social entrepreneurs. In one of the classes, we were asked to seek within ourselves the reasons why we chose the specific mission we are called to do. There I learned that everything had started long before I had my calling. When my father suddenly passed away, and I dropped out of school. I had to take a gap year before I could continue to college. Simply because my family had to figure out our family’s finances and there was a period of time in which I didn’t know how to pay for college so I started to get a job. That period of time made me realized not only the fragility of dropouts, but also the proper way to truly transcend a life out of poverty. I realized then that it is nearly impossible to be self-reliant without education.
The battle I am currently fighting on a national scale, is the same battle that has existed within myself ever since the aforementioned traumatic experience. My experience fueled me to create YCAB, to look at each child as a honeypot of potential. I see myself in every child I help because we share a key experience that has shaped us. I now have helped millions of other “me(s)”. I can only pray that they will use their opportunity to touch a life, to pay it forward, and to create a ripple effect for true impact.
JCN: Speaking of implementation what was YCAB methodology to forge the best approach in order to achieve this new mission? Did you turn to other organizations with experience in system change? Who were the experts you found to help YCAB on that? Who were the experts you found to help YCAB on that?
Veronica Colondam: The one methodology that works for us is to have is the willingness to learn. Over the years, YCAB has evolved from “impact only” to an “impact first”; from non-profit which was driven by donation to now becoming a sustainable social enterprise. The reason why we evolve is very much driven by survivability then, and now, sustainability. The term social enterprise wasn’t even there then, at least in Indonesia. But YCAB was already incorporated with a social enterprise approach, set up and surrounded by business units. I believe I was driven purely by my own entrepreneurial mindset, thinking to make profit somewhere and use it for social food. There is no law against it. So why not? And fast forward 15-20 years later, people categorize us as a social enterprise. That sounds like us. It fits us well.
If you ask me who the experts among us, I must say there was none. We all learn by doing, as we aim to do our best, we aim for excellence. And this path has led me to learn both informally and formally, through INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship program and Oxford Said School’s Impact Investing. And from these institutions, I have learned how to do things better each day. Also, with the help of one of MIT’s Peter Senge’s System Dynamic coach team, with whom we had the privilege to work with, we came to figure out our premise of change model back in 2010. And of course, additionally, with the help of our pro bono partners such as Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Accenture, we got all the help we needed. Being the world’s top-notch consultants who are at our disposal to help us, we can really see the values they added to YCAB; transforming YCAB to a better organization. Hopefully one day, from a good to a great organization.
JCN: What specific challenges do you face when it comes to managing a mutual fund relying on YCAB alumnus?
Veronica Colondam: I can only imagine it won’t be a hard sell. Many are waiting with anticipation. This is the most intriguing part of our premise of change model. But truthfully, I cannot rely entirely on YCAB alumnus alone. By capital market law, any mutual fund product should be open to the public so our mutual fund will be accessible to all kinds of investors, our alumnus included here.
However, at this point, the product is not ready to be issued. The process takes longer than anticipated. We are faced with challenges at every angle; from regulatory environment, (evidently more education is needed). It takes time to educate our regulators of something with a nature of impact bonds.
Then, the next challenges came from the issuer. By law, YCAB as a non-profit or as YCAB a venture company cannot underwrite its own fund, especially a mutual fund as it is a public fund. That said, a mutual fund has to be issued by an institution with OJK (Indonesia’s SEC) license, such as asset manager. At this point, we have identified the asset manager, they’re willing to do it pro bono but there’s another challenge which comes from the business itself. It has to become a size big enough to justify the costs of its issuance. We are looking at the window before 2020 to be able to do this, all we are waiting for is for our mission driven microfinance to at least double its today’s outstanding of US$3.5 million.
JCN: One core innovation at YCAB is its economic model which is a mix of nonprofit and for-profit entities. How do you see this evolving in time? Do you plan to add more to the existing for-profits? If so, what is catching YCAB’s eye?
Veronica Colondam: YCAB’s main goal since its inception is to be sustainable — for us, this means financially independent. Therefore, we design our finances in such a way so that the Foundation’s core costs and operating costs can be covered by its business units through a sharing services approach. The services shared include IT, Legal, GA and HR. The companies (business units) pay for the entire costs of these departments yet some of the staff of these departments will then ‘volunteer’ for the Foundation. That’s how our auditors think the best way to do it, so this has been the practice since the beginning.
Until a few years ago when we started to do a restructuring of the entire group. From the process, we decided to make the Foundation’s structure much leaner than before with only two functions in place: program and fundraising (including communications here). That said, the all other support functions are moved under a new holding company that we created. This holding company was supposed to be the hub of all shared services with a pay per usage model. In this case, all business units will pay per manhour used, and this becomes the income of the holding company. At that point of time, we think it is cleaner this way when compared with the setup we had in the beginning.
However, a year into this transition, we received a license from OJK (Indonesian SEC) to run a venture company. We had applied for this license because we needed to move the microfinance operation from cooperative structure to a more financially savvy institution under OJK. Starting January 2015, YCAB Ventures was in full swing, established as an impact first venture company. I believe we are the first and only impact ventures in Indonesia as it is 25% owned by the Foundation and 75% by myself, Veronica Colondam. This decision was based on an advice from our consultants and it was done in a such a way to be most efficient and in compliance with both foundation and capital market laws. With this in place, things have started to change again from the structure point a view.
So, in order to create a lean and simple story of YCAB, we are now inclined to use YCAB Ventures as the main structure of YCAB as social enterprise with obviously, YCAB Foundation as the main entity that runs the education program. And as of December 31st, 2018, YCAB ventures has bought out some of the business units (Terrazone and Beauty Inc.) and going forward, our business units will become the investees of YCAB Ventures. This is how we will put all our business assets under one structure.
With this, I’ve started to see a light at the end of a long tunnel of restructuring. But the story won’t quickly end here, as we all know the process of change management following a restructuring will still go on until the next few years. But I am more hopeful now because things are now getting clearer and leaner.
This year, YCAB Ventures will create an impact fund and activate its impact advisory unit. Through the advisory unit, we can continue to develop our impact while doing more mentoring of other social enterprise or SPOs. And through the impact investment fund, we will be investing in like-minded SPOs. This way we will go bigger than before, this is how we scale through investments. The other strategy that came to mind is to scale through merger and acquisition (M&A). However, this is harder to do and for the obvious reasons, it will take longer time to do as we need to find one with the right size with the right passion and business chemistry to adopt YCAB’s mission driven purposes.
Now that we have in a way merged all our business units under the umbrella of YCAB Ventures, we have come to a comfortable place. Comfortable simply because it is simpler for everyone to understand us as a social enterprise: YCAB (the Foundation) owns YCAB Ventures. And through YCAB Ventures, sustainability is reached while through the Foundation all education programs are run.
As for our plans to add more business units, well, the phrase never say never comes to mind. With this recent setup, what will happen in the future is for us to incubate mission aligned businesses, then make them investable for YCAB ventures to invest in. Of course, this is all done by a totally different set of people, completely different management team. As we know the danger of losing the balance between doing business and creating impact. I may be entrepreneurial myself, but since the beginning I have never had the desire to become too business oriented, as this could easily detract YCAB from its main task of serving the poor. However, the more profitable business units we have or the more good investments we make, the more profit we have to use for our programs and the more jobs we can create within the bottom of the pyramid, so it could be called a win-win situation.
JCN: Has YCAB partnered with any Academics to monitor and track its progress and its many underprivileged youths who were trained in YCAB’s educational program?
Veronica Colondam: YCAB partnered with the center of the applied psychology of University of Indonesia in our formative years to design and measure the impact of our initial school program that leads to behavior change. At the same time, we also learned the intricacies of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) processes, and have since formed our own M&E department. Now we are still connected to University Indonesia, the Faculty of Economics Studies (FE-UI), where some of their post graduate and doctorate students have done impact measurement for us; one is actually underway. The previous one was actually published in 2017 in a humanomics Emerald Insight Journal with a title “Does Microcredit Improve Wellbeing? Evidence from Indonesia”.
The tracking of our graduates, however, is done internally by our M&E department. It is not easy to track. Half of them changed their phone numbers, only around half of the other half which is still contactable will respond to our calls. That’s a brutal reality but the tracking business is always problematic with most nonprofits who run their own tracking. For this reason, we are currently speaking with Lean Data (Acumen), the plan is to partner with them as they run successful tracking techniques that works for funders or impact investors. They are ready to help us with this particular tracking of graduates and the beneficiaries of our mission driven microfinance.
On the tracking of the increase in welfare of our microfinance beneficiaries, we are still using the impact matrix which we put together with BCG in around 2013. Then we mapped out some items of study that define welfare (business growth, daily income, food security, education, savings, etc.) into our standard impact matrix measurement. We renew the data every other year, or at least, periodically. We just wrapped up our new 2018 data which shows some improvement from the previous study.
JCN: Are there any other Social Profit Oriented organisations (SPOs) in Indonesia or Asia that have caught YCAB’s attention, possibly inspired it? Would you suggest any merge & acquisition?
Veronica Colondam: As mentioned before, we have learned from many good friends and impact investment organizations all of whom share our vision. We are incorporated with the AVPN, along with our unique funders network who are committed to building a vibrant, high impact social investment community across Asia, and especially Indonesia. We have also invested in PLUS (platform for social enterprise in Indonesia), there we see thousands of young social enterprises blossoming here in Indonesia.
Merge & acquisition (M&A) is definitely one of our next strategies to scale. The challenge is to find the like-minded SPO which is also investable. We have not met one that fits our criteria, honestly, it’s not easy to find an SPO that does both missions in education and economic empowerment. As for now, we have made investments in a couple of SPOs that at least serves one of our mission, either education (i.e.: education tech startup offering online scholarship) or economic empowerment (i.e.: empowerment in agriculture business).
The one ongoing is an investment we are thinking to make in one of Indonesia’s online job platforms that focuses on jobs for youth with low level education, mostly for high school (SMA) and its equivalent, like graduates of vocational schools (SMK). They’re driven by a mission that is similar with ours, that makes them very different than other job platforms which usually focus only on undergrads. At this point this platform has already a million job seekers and we are in the process of due diligence. I believe this business is a good fit with YCAB’s premise of change where the end goal is to help youth find jobs and be “mandiri” or financially independent thus adding to the combined wealth of their family.
JCN: YCAB aims at reaching in 2020 five million youths in six countries in South East Asia and raises US$50 million in social investment funds. That’s about tomorrow. Where do you stand to that ambition?
Veronica Colondam: We have so far reached around 3.4 million youth through our offline (face to face) programs. On top of this which we never put into the account is the digital reach which we have collected in the last two three years partnering with Facebook. The number of digital-reach is quite fantastic, nearing 22 million digital impressions with tens of thousands of digital engagements. At this point we are trying to make sense of this digital footprint, but I believe there’s a potential there as it is cheaper and as effective (we did a comparison study of financial inclusion program: face to face classroom style vs. showing 5 min video with 5 min facilitation has proven to bring no significant statistical difference).
As for the social investment fund, we are around one fourth of the target through our philanthropic- and social-investment programs. Philanthropic investment usually involves CSR money with “investors” like Chevron, HSBC, and few Indonesian companies; as for the investors of our social investment program (where investors will get their principal back after a certain period of time; some with interest, some none) are usually high net worth individuals, impact investors and some companies and institution, like the Central Bank of Indonesia which exited mid last year after a three-year women empowerment program in the greater Jakarta area.
JCN: What will be your next flight’s destination outside Indonesia?
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Ross Morin is an award-winning teacher, filmmaker, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. He is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Film Studies where he teaches filmmaking. He is the co-founder of Kiltered Productions. He once called Tommy Wiseau's "The Room," "The Citizen Kane of Bad Movies."
Professor Morin grew up in southern Maine where he began making films when he was 13 years old. He received his BA in Film Studies and Psychology from Connecticut College in 2005 where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his MFA in Film and Video Production from Ohio University in 2008 where he graduated Phi Kappa Phi and won the Graduate Associate Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2018, he was awarded Connecticut College's highest teaching honor, the John S. King Memorial Award for teaching excellence and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Faculty Mentor Award.
Professor Morin heads the entire filmmaking curriculum at Connecticut College where he regularly teaches FLM 210: Fundamentals of Motion Picture Production, FLM 220: Documentary Theory and Production, FLM 238: Screenwriting, FLM 310: Ideological Representation in Motion Picture Production, FLM 320: Experimental Film: History and Practice, and FLM 410: Advanced Production Seminar. His courses emphasize a strong relationship between practice and theory. He believes in teaching film production as a combination of art, storytelling, and social justice activism.
Professor Morin is an independent filmmaker, editor and cinematographer. You can read more about his work on his website www.rossmorinfilm.com/films
Morin’s most recent short film, A Peculiar Thud (2016), won the following award and nominations:
Macabre Faire Film Festival (Nominated - Best Editing)
Sanford International Film Festival (Nominated - Best Horror)
Great Lakes International Film Festival (Nominee - Best Horror)
Coney Island Film Festival (Winner - Best Horror)
Liberty Massacre Horror Short Film Festival (Winner - Best Actor)
Atlanta Shortsfest (Nominee - Best Thriller Short)
Southeast New England Film Music and Art Fest (Winner - Best Horror Short; Winner - Audience Award - Best Regional Horror Short
International Horror Hotel Film Festival. (Honorable Mention)
Kickstarter (Project we Love)
His award-winning feature film, A Wheel Out of Kilter (2015), won the following awards:
Macabre Faire Film Festival (Winner – Best Feature Film)
Broken Knuckle Film Festival (Nominated – Freaky Feature)
Spotlight Horror Awards (Winner – Bronze Award)
Horror Hotel International Film Festival and Convention (Winner – 3rd Place, Feature Suspense/Thriller film)
Emerge Film Festival, Auburn, Maine. 2016 (Nominated – Best Maine Film)
Mountain Film Festival, Mammoth Lakes, Calif. 2016 (Winner - Sir Edmund Hillary award, Feature Film competition)
Santa Monica Independent Film Festival, Santa Monica, Calif. 2015 (Winner - Honorable Mention)
Princeton Independent Film Festival, Princeton, N.J. 2015 (Winner - Indie Spirit Award)
His film, Ad Noctum (2011), which he shot, and wrote and directed with horror filmmaker RJ Wilson, was selected by the following film festivals:
Severed Sinema, Stroudsburg, Pa. 2014
University Film and Video Association Conference, Orange, Calif. 2013
Love Your Shorts Film Festival, Sanford, Fla. 2012
Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston, Mass. 2012
NewFilmmakers New York, Anthology Film Archives, New York, N.Y. 2012
Glen Rose Neo Relix Film Festival, Glen Rose, Texas 2011
Coney Island Film Festival, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2011
Rumschpringe Short Film Festival, Lancaster, Pa. 2011
Shockerfest International Film Festival, KAZV-TV, Modesto, Calif. 2011
Silk City Flick Festival, Hartford, Conn. 2011
Thriller! Chiller! Film Festival, Grand Rapids, Mich. 2011
Wanderings Film Festival, Huntsville, Ala. 2011
Illinois International Film Festival, Chicago, Ill. 2011 (Winner - Best Short Horror Film)
Creative Arts Film Festival, online film festival 2011 (Nominated - Best Short Horror Film)
Professor Morin’s recent editing and producing work includes Deadpoint (2016, directed by Matthew Herbertz) A Man of God (2015, directed by Matthew Herbertz), and Cigar Man (2014, directed by Evan Clar). These award-winning films have screened nationally and internationally.
As a scholar, he is interested in the representation of sexuality and gender in film and television, in particular the student film.
His most recent papers include:
- Ideology on a Lunch Tray: Negative Representations of Women in the Student Film (2011)
- Sexism, Misogyny and the Fear of the Feminine in Student Films (2012)
- Rethinking Production Pedagogy: Bringing Theory into the Filmmaking Classroom (2014)
- Trauma and Dissociation in "All This Can Happen" (2015)
- Looking for Strangers: Grindr, AIDS Anxiety, and the Male Gaze in "Stranger by the Lake" (2015)
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The Worn Path by Eudora Welty is a narrative of an elderly African American woman named Phoenix Jackson who takes a long tiring walk to Natchez. The story portrays unconditional love by applying characters as well as setting settings that adds up to the theme. Phoenix is elderly, poor sighted and weak. She takes through a path she is familiar with, to looks for medication for her only grandson who had previously ingested lye and fell sick. Phoenix pursued everything within her reach to ensure that her only grandson alive is saved. The short story applies various settings, which depicts the social interactions of the characters in the narrative hence revealing their stances in the society.
The short story has a settling that depicts the struggles of the old woman in search of the medication as he walks up and about in a winter morning, through a fence of barbed wire, where she had to crawl through and when she had to cross a marshy area along the path. She also encounters a wild dog, which frighten her making her to fall down into a ditch as she commands it to get out of her way. Besides, she encounters a white man on the way, who is hunting for pleasure and who saves her from the dog. Meanwhile, she attempts to take his nickel but the man scares her with gun, an aspect that helps the reader to appreciate the social differences between the two people who belong to different racial backgrounds. She overcomes all these problems since she is driven by the love for her grandson. The setting of the story depicts the toughness of the trip and the way of life in the American south during the great depression. The gap between the rich and the poor is so manifest as the poor as represented by Phoenix have undivided devotion for humanity while the rich, as represented by the white hunter underscores such values.
The elderly woman is comparable to a particular mythical legend of ancient Egyptian bird named Phoenix, which overcame all obstacles for its rebirth. Likewise, the woman is able to go beyond her problems in every trip as she encounters a new challenge each time. Due to her age, she has difficulties while walking across the woods, a journey she goes through due to her determination. Phoenix is black impoverished and degraded by the society due to being treated unfairly. She bears a nickel which constantly reminds her of her social deprivation. The reader is able to see her social status since she clings to the nickels as a treasure. The verbal exchanges allow the reader to be in the right mood of the story and help them to have their own interpretation of the story.
Nature is portrayed as being stunning, yet its beauty destructs Phoenix’s journey since her eyesight is poor, she is weak due to her age. However, she is able to overcome and continues with her journey. In the city, she enters the hospital where she is questioned by the nurse of her sick grandson with a presumption that he is already dead. This hurts her emotions and she forgets the reason for making the tiresome journey. She describes the situation of her grandson insisting he did not die irrespective of the harm from the lye. She is given the medication and obtains another nickel that she uses to buy a little windmill for his grandson as a present. This aspect shows that even the racially marginalized people can be materialistic just like the privileged whites who dominate the society. These scenarios underwent by Phoenix symbolizes perseverance and depicts a spirit of self-sacrifice as the reader perceives them as such.
Phoenix faces a psychological turmoil of racial inequalities where whites do not understand what she has gone through and therefore, looks down on her. For instance, the white hunter ironically states that she has walked all the way to town to see Santa Claus. The nurse on the other hand, dismisses Phoenix for charity and is not touched by the ailing grandson since she rushes her displeasingly. The journey she undertakes is a familiar one as she airs her thoughts on the natural objects in a monologue. She warns the wild animals to get out of her way and to complain when her weary bones ache. She has psychological imagery as she imagines her grandson offering her a portion of marble cake and complains of being old, which helps the reader to see her psychological state that might be as a result of the social distress she has faced.
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Women's rights refer to the privileges and entitlements that women and girls claim with regard to fair treatment and equal rights. These entitlements cover a wide scope of matters affecting the society that include but not limited to political participation, gender equality, freedom of religion, the right to own property, freedom to make personal choices, and the right to education. Although there has been considerable progress, there are still some rights and privileges that women and girls are excluded from either on the basis of gender, religion, or societal norms. Women's rights with regard to political participation and suffrage have been most relevant in 2014 and the 21st century in general. According to statistics, ("Facts and Figures: Leadership and Political Participation", 2016) only 22% of all political offices worldwide are occupied by women. This is a huge disparity considering women account for more than 50% of the population in most countries ("Population, female (% of total) | Data | Table," 2016). These points out to the relevance of women's rights to participate in political matters
Women's rights affect all global population that identifies with the female gender. Although all females might not endure the same struggles concurrently, all women undergo some type of discrimination at various stages of their lives. In developing countries, women's rights are particularly lacking as women are not educated, don't have the right to own land, and most often do not have the right to make personal decisions concerning marriage and child bearing. Additionally, most Islam countries also deny girls higher education, political participation and freedom of speech (McGlen & O'connor, 1998).
Women's right issues cut across the board in terms of socio-economic empowerment and stratification (McGlen & O'connor, 1998). Although wealthy women and girls in some countries that discriminate against women empowerment can buy themselves some rights such as higher education; there still exist restrictions to their freedoms similar to poorer women and girls. However, women's rights have largely been affected by social stratification on the basis of gender. Since recorded history, men have always been deemed to be superior to women. Consequently, men have always enjoyed more political, economic, and social freedoms than women. As such, gender based social stratification has been the biggest impediment to achieving equitable and fair women's rights (Freeman, 1975).
There exist numerous projects globally aimed at addressing the problem of women's rights. Bodies such as the International women's rights project and the United Nations Women have dedicated billions of monetary and human resources in various projects that aim at eliminating gender-based discrimination. In particular, the UN Women Organization has active projects worldwide aimed at gender mainstreaming and empowerment of women concerning their political, social, economic, health, and religious freedoms (Freeman, 1975).
I chose women's rights as my topic because I believe it is a topic that touches on so many issues that ail our society today. In tackling issues that affect women, the topic highlights a lot of retrogressive mentalities and believes that contribute to other evils in our society. Additionally, it is my affirmation that discrimination of any kind, gender or otherwise, should not have a place in our society at this time and age hence my choice to highlight the plight of women's right.
Learning the topic has changed my perspective on a lot of things. Particularly, I have had a change in perspective with regard to discrimination. Initially, I did not realize the extent to which discrimination can negatively affect people. Studying women's rights has helped me put into perspective the extent to which retrogressive beliefs can have an impact on a country and society as a whole.
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“I forgot my camera,” I said to Wayan, the tour guide on our bicycle trip. He had, moments earlier, announced “Kodak moment!” as we slowed for our first stop—a lookout point over a mist-filled valley of tiered rice terraces. Two Swedish girls, two Dutch girls, and an English girl posed at the precipice, photographing themselves with evidence of having been to a beautiful vista in northeastern Bali.
“Oh no,” said Wayan. “Well, you will keep it in your head.”
My head already resembled a home interior from the TV show Hoarders, more so now that the compulsive caretakers within had made it their mission to collect as many Indonesian words as possible. I knew the word for “beautiful,” but lacked the impulse to document beauty. If I had to build a new mental wing to house the active volcano Mount Batur, so be it.
Still, imagined disappointment from intimates ate at me. It seemed I could not cement a solid habit of picture-taking, and in this way I felt I failed the demands of our time at every picturesque turn, successful only in my failure to do the thing I should have, in retrospect, done—done for friends, for family, for Facebook.
The feeling left me as the day progressed. The Swedish girls took cheeky snapshots of themselves knee-deep in the mud of a rice paddy outside a small village. “Dirty feet!” they cried, flashing smiles.
“It’s like a spa treatment,” one joked, stepping out with wet muck on her calves.
“I used to help my father do this when I was a boy,” said Wayan. He crouched down to plant a few sprouted seedlings.
“It must be kind of fun for little kids to be in the mud and the water,” said one of the Swedes. “Like playing.”
When we stopped at a coffee plantation, the Dutch girls took pictures of a caged civet, whose digestion and excretion of raw beans is essential to the production of expensive, earthy kopi luwak. Pictures of old Balinese women in their family compounds chopping and peeling bamboo into usable strips. Pictures of a five-hundred-year-old banyan tree. I would later persuade my fellow tourists to e-mail me these pictures, so that I could pass them off as my own when I returned.
At a particularly stunning view of the volcano, the English girl said to me, “Bet you wish you’d brought your camera now.”
“There’s a lot of things I wish,” I said in my head, keeping that there as well.
“What do you do all day? Just sit around?”
The English girl had said this in response to Wayan’s description of Nyepi, the silent day that marked the Balinese Hindu New Year. On Nyepi, the streets stayed empty, and the people shunned work, cutting their lights and electricity if they had them. Entertainment and pleasure were supposed to be forbidden, too; NO AMUSEMENT MAY BE MADE, read one of the headings in a brochure from the tourism office. A day for self-reflection.
In Ubud, where I had checked into a homestay, big ogoh-ogoh—monstrous demon figures with snarling faces, sagging breasts, huge paunches, and splayed talons, each built by a different group of artists—waited in temples or on the street, parts peeking out from under protective tarps. These would be paraded through town on Nyepi eve, and finally burned in a cemetery, a ceremony of purification and evil spirit-banishing.
I felt rather like an evil spirit myself some mornings in Bali, waking to a volatile mental whirl of excitement, confusion, and dread. This restless energy knocked around my head like a poltergeist, hurling perceived needs and whims and insults across the room until about midday, when the blunt reality of being in an new place eclipsed headier concerns.
Stretches of acute self-loathing, though, are a natural, perhaps even desirable byproduct of travel. I met many variations on an Eat, Pray, Love theme in Ubud who might disagree: women and some men who wanted only to feel the wind in their hair as they motorbiked into their bliss, whose billowing pants and serene, smiling frontispieces suggested every satisfaction, whose lust for remedy drove them to many local healers, much processing, much groping of and after the idea of a more authentic life—a concept as slippery as a fresh fish, and eventually as fragrant as a spoiled one.
Bali is, among many other things, a prime destination for travelers who loathe loathing, and who will spare no expense in their quest to scrub themselves of its all too familiar fetor.
In any case, I would usually be on a rented motorbike by early afternoon, hightailing it away from Ubud to lose myself hours out of town, buoyed by the village kids who gave me low-fives as I cruised by, or by awesome temples, like the eleventh-century Gunung Kawi, with its shrines carved into a rugged cliff face, its clear, cool brooks. I might stop to eavesdrop on a group of musicians practicing the gamelan, or to eat roast suckling pig at some roadside market among chain-smoking, silent Balinese men, men who turned on me the same wary curiosity they might a limping, three-legged street dog with its tongue lolling out.
One day, I went for what is called a healing Balinese massage. I figured it might help with my back pain, which had flared up in Sydney a week earlier. My masseur warned me that the massage itself might be painful, and before long, with his thumbs and elbows digging into pressure points on my upper back, it was.
As the intensity of the treatment mounted, I started, involuntarily, to giggle. I wanted not to giggle, but by the time he got to my legs, I was convulsing with laughter, face-down on the table.
“What is your job?” he said.
“Nothing,” I sputtered. “Writing.”
“How does this feel?” He grabbed the spot on my hand between left thumb and index finger, and I nearly screamed with pain.
“Bad,” I said.
“Connected to your head,” he said. “You think too much. You writer, think too much. You write with left hand? Try relax.”
I tried. Soon, however, I was laughing again, laughing so hard that tears streamed from my eyes. (The next day, I had a bruise on my thigh.)
“Hurts?” he said. “Ticklish?”
“It’s okay,” I said. “Saya suka ini.”
“Ah, you speak Indonesian?” he said, surprised.
“Tidak,” I said, meaning “no.”
“You write for newspaper? Or write the book?”
“Both,” I said, for simplicity’s sake, though the thought of the latter undertaking was perhaps one of the least relaxing topics of conversation on my list at that moment. My laughter, rushing out of me like the mad cackle of a screen villain transported by his own evil, kept pace with the pain, and soon the masseur started laughing too.
“You write for newspaper,” he said, “say, ‘Come to Bali, have painful massage here.’”
“‘Don’t come to Bali,’” I said I would say, “‘Terrible place. Too much pain.’”
“‘Come to Bali, have massage you can’t enjoy,’” he said. Then, turning serious, he added: “First time massage with me, you can’t enjoy.”
“That’s okay,” I said. “Who needs pleasure all the time?”
He instructed me to breathe deeply, and with his thumbs pressed into the back of my skull, he leaned closer. Then, in a tone of voice one might use to cheerfully check in on someone and make sure every little thing was as it should be, he asked, “Are you suffering?”
Nyepi came, the silent day. I thought it might be pretty quiet around the homestay, but it seemed all of the other visitors had saved up their noisemaking for that day in particular. The walls of my room, made of overlapping strips of bamboo using a technique I had witnessed firsthand on the bicycle tour, did little to silence the rowdy sex taking place between my French neighbor and a prostitute he had managed to hire for the occasion. In the lingua franca of my native English, they negotiated extended rates for services and discussed, midfuck, how best to improve upon whatever apparently advanced sexual maneuver had been included in the bargain—a maneuver that was, from the sounds of things, proving more difficult than expected.
A good amount of amusement was being made. This seemed to me, if nothing else, a somewhat culturally insensitive way to spend Nyepi. And from another room, music and singing! The young son of a German couple downstairs threw a screaming, crying tantrum. One of the Balinese tots that lived in the family compound lost his composure too, running in circles and making a sound like the revving of a tiny, angry motorcycle.
“Hard for them to stay inside,” his father said when I emerged for tea.
The next day I would fly to Jakarta and, I knew, would get to gossip with the homestay proprietor on the way to the airport, to speculate with him about the Frenchman and his prostitute. The proprietor and I had struck up a friendly, conversational relationship that began with his showing me music videos of Indonesian rockabilly bands on his iPhone over breakfast. (When I asked him one morning if he had read Eat, Pray, Love, he said, “My culture not reading culture—gossip, talking.”)
Back in my darkened room, I threw myself down on the bed. “I wish I had a prostitute,” I thought, sighing. “Any kind of prostitute.”
Without a prostitute, I had to create my own forbidden amusement. I closed my eyes and pictured myself walking into one of the many healing centers in Ubud, one of the many bodyworks or crystal consultants, and making a beeline for the resident guru. I smiled as the scene unfolded, now only dimly aware of the cicadas clicking outside, the Frenchman fucking his way into the Balinese New Year next door.
“Excuse me,” I said, entering the shop.
“Yes?” said the wise man. “How can I help you? What is the problem?”
“I hate myself,” I said. I announced it with good cheer, with the embarrassing royal bearing I reserve for fantasy, with what is sometimes described as “obvious relish.” “I hate myself!”
That’s how it began in my head, where all my snapshots of beautiful vistas are stored—pictures of Mount Batur, pictures of Tampaksiring. What happened after that, friend, stays between me and my healer.
Evan James is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Sun, and elsewhere. He is writing a novel. He is also on Twitter.
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Canadians And Their Foreign Spouses Are Now Being Reunited
With the pandemic reinforcing the need for more effective family reunification policies, Canada has taken it upon itself to ensure that partners can reunite as soon as possible. According to a report by the Toronto Star, Canada’s efforts have already started paying off with more and more Canadians being able to meet their foreign spouses once again.
The pandemic had caused separation for many couples because the foreign partner was unable to gain entry into Canada in a lot of cases.
Not only did the border restrictions hinder travel, but the countrywide lockdown led to federal offices falling behind on processing applications. People expressed their disappointment many times in IRCC’s inability to grant an immigration status to their spouse or common-law partner.
It was finally in September that the federal government decided to expedite the processing of applications geared towards spousal sponsorship. In order to achieve this goal, IRCC also took special steps like allowing more staff to work on the spousal sponsorships.
With 66% more people working on the sponsorships, IRCC managed to complete the processing for 6000 applications monthly in the period between October and December last year.
Toronto Star reports that IRCC processed 15,999 files in that time period. Almost two-thirds of the applications came from people who were living outside Canada. A total of 14,816 applications received approval while 837 of them were rejected.
IRCC is planning to use new technologies to hasten the processing times in general. There is still a lot of improvement, especially with Canada’s increased focus on immigration over the next few years.
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1. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
2. Crim. Law (a) Submission to an injury by the party injured. (b) Tacit concurrence in the action of another.
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For weeks now, we’ve heard that voting machines cannot be hacked because they are not connected to the Internet. We now learn that is not true.
It turns out that machines which electronically record and tabulate votes are in fact equipped with modems — permitting communication with the outside world.
In an affidavit, John R. Brakey, an Arizona-based election integrity activist currently seeking a hand count in a number of Wisconsin counties that used optical scanners to recount paper ballots, states his knowledge that:
“…many of these counties are vulnerable to insider or sophisticated hacking because election results are transmitted through a cellular modem that is connected to the Internet.”
Brakey says that he and others working with him have confirmed that the scanning machines used in at least three Wisconsin counties — Milwaukee, Waukesha (suburban Milwaukee) and St. Croix (western Wisconsin) — contain a cellular modem to allow results to be sent over the Internet.
This, he says, makes them vulnerable both to insiders (including machine suppliers) and to sophisticated hackers.
They’re checking to see if this is the case with other counties.
As long as there is such communication, the possibility of hacking, and of remote control and manipulation of that machine, remains very real. (And please see our story on the unexpected spike in internet traffic coming from Russia and its former republic Kyrgyzstan, suggesting the possibility that someone was checking the hackability of voting machines in Wisconsin.)
Kathleen O. Novack, clerk of Waukesha County, confirmed to WhoWhatWhy that the county’s DS200 optical scanners, manufactured by ES&S, do contain modems. “The modems are separate systems that transmit results on election night,” she said.
Novack noted that recount results were printed out on tapes, not transmitted.
Whether a machine could theoretically have been hacked prior to, during, or after the apparatus has scanned or tabulated votes — and how that might impact a recount using the same machine later, when the recount results were not transmitted over a modem — is not clear.
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Polly and Ken Costello of Bellevue, Nebraska, daughter and son-in-law of Ruby Trautz, who lost her life to severe E. coli complications after eating contaminated Dole Spinach, will travel to Washington on Tuesday to raise awareness about the consequences of the broken federal food safety system.
Polly and Ken will join the Center for Science in the Public Interest in presenting a report on the top ten “riskiest” to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Nebraska lawmakers, according to a news wire report.
This week over a dozen foodborne illness victims and their family members will travel to DC to promote stronger food safety laws. The lobbying effort is part of a coordinated advocacy effort by the Make Our Food Safe Campaign, a well organized coalition of public health, consumer advocacy, and foodborne illness victim groups.
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We understand that three resolutions are currently being negotiated at the 29thsession of the Human Rights Council which relate directly to Reproductive Health Matters’ area of expertise and interest, and to that of our stakeholders. Reproductive Health Matters is an international organisation focusing on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of people around the world and publishing a peer reviewed journal. Gender-based and domestic violence; child, early and forced marriage; and discrimination against women are key areas of concern for us and for our global community. We are pleased to see three resolutions calling for positive action in these areas and urge the government to support these draft resolutions as tabled by instructing your Permanent Mission or relevant authorities in Geneva to co-sponsor immediately. These three resolutions are:
1. Accelerating Efforts to Eliminate All Forms of Violence Against Women:Eliminating Domestic Violence
2. Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage
3. Elimination of discrimination against women
These three resolutions all focus on efforts to reduce violence and discrimination against women and girls and as such require your immediate attention. As a country which prides itself on equality and non-discrimination we believe that the government must send out a clear signal to the international community that we stand with efforts to eliminate such practices.
In the meantime we are aware that a group of countries including Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates have tabled amendments that we believe will serve to weaken the resolution: These amendments are to:
1. “Replace the term intimate partner violence with spousal and non-spousal violence
2. “Delete the term marital rape”
3. “Replace the term sexuality education with sexual and reproductive health education
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Credit cards are financial tools that can save you money or completely ruin your finances, depending on how you use them. One of the biggest money mistakes you can make is to use credit cards without really understanding how they work.
This guide will explain the main benefits and pitfalls of credit cards. When you understand basic terms and concepts, you can avoid common mistakes and use credit cards to your advantage.
What You Need To Know About Credit Cards
- What Is a Credit Card?
- How Is Interest Charged On Credit Cards?
- What Kinds of Credit Cards Are There?
- What Fees Can Credit Cards Charge?
- What Are Some Smart Ways To Use Credit Cards?
- How Do You Get a Credit Card?
Here are the details on six things you should know about credit cards.
What Is a Credit Card?
A credit card is a financial product that lets you make purchases, take cash advances and transfer balances from other accounts. When you’re approved, you receive a plastic card showing your account number. The card also includes encoded data so that merchants can process transactions.
Cardholders are given a credit limit, which is the maximum balance you can accumulate on a card. Your limit is determined by the card issuer and might change based on information such as your income, credit score, and relationship with the card issuer. In general, higher credit scores and higher income enable you to qualify for a higher credit limit.
Many people use the terms “credit card” and “charge card” interchangeably, but they’re not the same.
A charge card requires you to pay off your balance in full each month. A credit card lets you carry a balance indefinitely if you make monthly minimum payments by the due date. Cards are a type of revolving debt because they typically remain open as long as you wish, without a set payoff date.
The main benefit of using credit cards is the ability to borrow money with every purchase you make and then repay it over time.
Your credit limit is the most you can borrow, and your minimum payment is the least you are supposed to pay each month.
How Is Interest Charged On Credit Cards?
When you make charges on a credit card, you must pay an annual percentage rate (APR) on your unpaid balance. This interest expense, known as a finance charge, is set by your card issuer. Each card company has different terms depending on the type of card, your credit history, and the type of transactions you make.
For instance, you might be charged 12% for new purchases, 18% for balance transfers, and 28% for cash advances. If you don’t realize that it’s expensive to take a cash advance on a credit card, you could end up with a massive bill that you struggle to pay off.
When you make more than the minimum payment, the card company generally must apply the excess to your highest-interest balances first. In this scenario, that means the money would go toward reducing your cash advance balance before it would apply to your regular purchase balance.
You typically get about 25 days, known as a grace period, to pay your balance each month before interest is tacked on. If you pay it off in full, you avoid a finance charge. But, if you carry balances over from month to month, the card issuer adds interest charges.
Let’s say you charge $4,000 to a card with an 18% APR and have a minimum payment of 4%, or $160. If you pay only the minimum each month, it would take you almost 11 years to eliminate the balance. That’s why it’s so important to pay as much as possible on your credit card debt every month — ideally, paying it off in full.
What Kinds of Credit Cards Are There?
A variety of credit cards are available with a variety of benefits.
Rewards credit cards come with rewards for making purchases, such as cash back or points to redeem for goods and services. Travel cards are popular, which offer points for flights, hotel stays, and car rentals.
The downside is that rewards cards charge relatively high interest rates. If you don’t pay off your balance in full each month, the interest could more than offset the benefits. So, these cards are ideal for the most responsible credit card users.
Student credit cards help young people build credit. However, for anyone under age 21, card companies require an approved adult co-signer or proof of income.
Many student cards offer benefits such as cash back rewards. But the downside is that they charge high interest rates. A naïve or irresponsible student could easily rack up debt that he or she can’t pay off.
Balance transfer credit cards offer a low-interest or no-interest promotional period if you move an existing balance to the card. A typical promotion might last 3-18 months.
You can transfer higher-interest debt, such as credit card or auto loan debt, and save a substantial amount of interest. The amount you can transfer depends on the credit limit you’re offered. Note that there’s usually a transfer fee (around 2% to 5%) for each balance that you switch to another card.
Once the promotional rate ends, the card issuer usually charges a much higher interest rate. That means doing a transfer is a good strategy if you can pay off the balance in full before the promotion ends.
Secured credit cards require an upfront deposit, which normally becomes your credit limit and also can be tapped if you miss a payment. The deposit amount depends on the card issuer, but it could range from $100 to $5,000.
Secured cards are a good option for riskier borrowers who might not qualify for a regular “unsecured” card. Choosing one that reports your payment history to at least one of the major credit bureaus can help you build credit.
What Fees Can Credit Cards Charge?
Besides charging interest, credit card issuers make money in a number of ways. All financing charges and fees must be disclosed in the card’s application and online. Read the fine print carefully, as charges and fees vary based on the issuer and the type of card.
Annual card fees are charged by some issuers for simply letting you have a card. They might range from $50 to $500. These annual fees might be worthwhile if you use rewards that are worth more than the fee.
Balance transfer fees apply when you use a card to pay off another debt. They typically range from 2% to 5%.
Cash advance fees come into play when you borrow from your credit line by making a cash withdrawal (instead of making regular purchases).
Foreign transaction fees apply to many cards when you make purchases outside your home country.
Late payment fees can be as high as $27 for your first missed payment. However, these fees can be even higher if you miss several payments within a six-month period.
When you authorize your card company to approve transactions that exceed your credit limit, over-limit fees apply. The issuer will process the charges but also penalize you as much as 29.99%. Otherwise, a transaction that would exceed your credit limit is rejected.
What Are Some Smart Ways To Use Credit Cards?
Even with all the potential credit card fees, you can avoid them by paying off a balance before the due date. Also, making on-time payments (either a minimum or full amount) is an easy way to build credit.
A card issuer typically reports each monthly payment you make to at least one of the three major credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion). Developing a good payment history is the most important factor in determining your credit score; a solid payment history demonstrates that you manage credit responsibly.
When used wisely, credit cards can provide many benefits, such as:
- Building credit.
- Earning rewards.
- Shopping online or over the phone.
- Getting built-in insurance for products or travel-related services.
- Being protected by maximum liability of $50 for a stolen card or unauthorized charges.
How Do You Get a Credit Card?
Getting a credit card is as easy as completing an online application. A card issuer typically asks questions to verify your identity, such as your name, address and Social Security number. Plus, you’ll need to provide proof of your annual income.
Focus on applying for a secured card to improve your credit, if you can’t get approved for a regular card.
If you successfully manage a secured card for several months, the issuer might automatically qualify you for a regular card.
Another option: Become an authorized user on someone else’s card. This lets you use the card without being legally responsible for the debt. In some cases, if the account history is reported to at least one of the credit bureaus, being an authorized user helps build credit. Just be sure the card owner makes payments on time; otherwise, negative information on your credit reports, such as late payments, could hurt you.
The Bottom Line
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — Build or Help Build (Zechariah 6:15)?
Two of the things to look for in interpreting the biblical text is the roles of God and of people (see Grasping God’s Word, chs. 3–5 for a list and discussion of 23 things to look for, including these two). One of the important features in Zechariah is the role of the Gentiles in the plan of God.
The Construction of the Second Temple
This was a time when the Gentiles were not allowed to participate in the rebuilding of the Temple. At that time, Gentiles, who had been exiled into Judea by the Assyrians, approached Zerubbabel asking to help build the Temple, because “like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him.” Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the other Jewish leaders refused their aid, however, and this led to the Gentiles seeking to discourage the Jews from rebuilding (Ezra 4:1–4, NIV).
A Curious Verse
It is within this context that a verse appears that must have been quite startling to the original readers. In Zech 6:15 the Lord predicts a time in the future concerning another “Temple” after Zerubbabel’s when “those far off” would come and not be refused. Here is where the versions read differently.
Zechariah 6:15a Text and Two Types of Translations
From a Type 1 translation, one might infer that the Lord was predicting that this new Temple would be built by Gentiles instead of Jews. That certainly doesn’t sound right! From a Type 2 translation, the meaning is that Gentiles will help the Jews build this later Temple. That certainly sounds better, but the problem is that there is no Hebrew word behind the English word “help.”
Zechariah 6:15a Masoretic Text
Collocations of Verbs
In Hebrew, as in English, the joining of one word to another can change the meaning of the word. Most commonly this occurs with verbs and prepositions (see Hebrew for the Rest of Us, 95–96, or other more complete grammars). For example, in English, if I hear of a person who acts, my first thought is of someone in the theater, TV, or movies. If I hear of a person who acts up, I think of someone misbehaving.
The word for “build,” בָנָה (bānâ) is normally followed by a direct object, just as in English. For example, Josh 6:26, “who rises up and rebuilds this city,” אֲשֶׁר יָקוּם וּבָנוּ אֶת־הָעִיר הַזֹּאת, the function word אֶת, marks a definite direct object.
In Zech 6:15a, וּבָנוּ (ûbānû), is followed not by a direct object, but by a prepositional phrase, בְּהֵיכַל יְהוָה, (behêkāl YHWH), in which the first letter, ב (b), is a preposition. In sentences with “build” and a direct objects, a prepositional phrase with ב indicated a location. For example, see 2 Chr 33:15, וְכָל הַמִּזְבְּחֹות אֲשֶׁר בָּנָה בְּהַר בֵּית יְהוָה, “and all the altars which he built on the mountain of the house of the Lord,” in which what was built was the altars, and the place was the mountain; they did not build the mountain, of course.
In Zech 6:15, there is no direct object. Does the preposition (1) simply mark the direct object, as in translation Type 1, or (2) does it mark the place where building is done with some other implied direct object, or (3) does it mean something more idiomatic, as in Type 2?
The collocation is not common. Besides our passage, I have found only Neh 4:10, 17, in which the object of the preposition is wall. The wall was rebuilt by many people working on different parts. They were not building other things on the wall, they were building onto the wall that existed in broken down pieces. So, meaning (3) is the best.
Zechariah 6:15 seems to have meaning (3) also. The idea is not that the Gentiles will be building some unspecified things in the Temple area. The Lord is predicting that the Gentiles will one day build onto the later Temple itself. They will not build alone, and they will not build the temple in its entirety, but they will build with the Jews who are faithful to the Lord and to his purposes. Translation Type 2, as in NIV, brings out the idea quite well.
Connections to the New Covenant
This new, later Temple is seen in the NT as a temple not made with hands (1 Cor 5:1; Heb 9:24). It is a Temple made up of the people of God themselves (1 Cor 3:16–17; 1 Pet 2:5). The Gentiles do not replace the Jews, they labor with them, and together they both form and build onto the “Temple,” the faithful people of God (Rom 10:11–13; Eph 2:14).
Gentiles ought to be grateful that by God’s grace they have been grafted in to join with their Jewish believers to participate in the building up of God’s kingdom until he returns (Rom 11:11–21).
Let all God’s people be active builders, and let them all say together, “Maranatha!”
(Image:"Reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem." Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons)
Lee M. Fields writes about the biblical Hebrew language, exegesis, Hebrew translation, and related topics at Koinonia. A trained Hebrew scholar, his education includes a Ph.D. from Hebrew Union College. He is the author of Hebrew for the Rest of Us (Zondervan, 2008) and An Anonymous Dialogue with a Jew (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012). He currently serves as Professor of Bible and Chairman of the Department of Biblical Studies at Mid-Atlantic Christian University in Elizabeth City, NC.
Learn more about Lee’s innovative work in biblical languages and instruction.
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The value of being unique and persistent
Albert Einstein said "logic will get you from A to B but imagination will take you
Because I have friends and family members who have been diagnosed with autism, I am obsessed with learning more about it.
It it is true that some of our greatest thinkers, including Edison and Einstein, had autism, then maybe we better reexamine our attitude toward those who have autism.
According to the Autism Society, approximately 1 percent of the world population has an autism spectrum disorder. An estimated 2.4 percent of children in the United States have autism spectrum disorder, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Anyone interested in autism, might want to watch "The Good Doctor," an ABC production that airs at 9 p.m. Mondays.
Even though the jury is out on what causes autism, we need to celebrate our uniqueness and lend support however we can.
We won't all be football players or tennis stars. Nor should we want to be, because it takes all kinds to make the world go round.
Imagine if Edison, born in 1847 and the founder of General Electric, hadn't been kicked out of school after only three months in the first grade. He teacher said "he is addled and his mind wanders in class." His mother then taught him at home, and today we have the light bulb along with 10,000 other inventions.
It took Edison 5,000 tries before he invented the first incandescent light bulb. He was asked once what he would have done if he hadn't invented the light bulb. His reply: "I would still be in there trying."
I love this story because it affirms the power of persistence. The Bible says, "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happens to them all."
Isn't there merit to be found in "stepping to the beat of a different drummer?"
God knew what he was doing when He made man. He gave us each one at least one small talent. We can use it and it will multiply. Or, if buried, it will die.
Who can place value on what we do? So many inventions come into being simply because of necessity. When we want something badly enough we will believe it into existence.
Just keep on keeping on at whatever you do, and never ever let anyone else define your worth.
None of us are alike. God made no duplicates — no two snow flakes are alike.
God must have liked variety.
How could anyone not believe in God? I find it much easier to believe in the One who made me, who causes the blood to flow through my veins and who created me to breathe without even thinking about it than to believe in atheism.
We will never fully appreciate the value of what others do in life because that is how we unfortunately are made, and this lack of understanding is what causes much of the conflict in the world.
If we could only understand and appreciate each other a little more — and not bully each other even as adults — we would know that it is only in our uniqueness that we celebrate our finest hours.
Having this knowledge gives me the energy to go on even in the midst of emotional storms within my life, but I am energized knowing that God will always pull me through because Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever getting me to the right place at the right time.
I am thankful for this "peace that passes understanding."
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BERLIN (AP) — A German government agency tasked with providing unbiased political information has launched a website suggesting that the U.S. government staged the 9/11 attacks and that aircraft contrails are poisonous — to show how illogical conspiracy theories are.
The Federal Agency for Civic Education said Monday that the mock videos on the website are aimed at people who don’t pay much attention to traditional media.
The site — called “Wahre Welle TV,” or True Wave TV — is designed to encourage consumers of online information to critically question what they see or read online.
To make clear the videos are not meant to be taken literally, each episode ends with the words “don’t believe the crap” and links to additional resources.
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Whoever causes an explosion, fire or take some other usually dangerous motion out of hostile motives against the SFRJ, or commits an act of violence which may create a feeling of personal insecurity in citizens or a in a bunch of citizens, shall be punished by imprisonment for not lower than 5 years. Whoever abducts a person, or commits other violence against one other individual, or destroys property of a giant value out of hostile motives in opposition to the SFRJ, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than five years. A citizen of the SFRJ who commits the act referred to in paragraph 1 of this article with an intent to help the enemy, shall be punished by imprisonment for not lower than five years. When an official or a navy particular person has been accused of committing sure legal acts, persons referred to in paragraphs four and 5 of this text may be the perpetrators of those acts provided it doesn’t observe from characteristics of a selected act or explicit prescript that their perpetrator could solely be sure of the required individuals. The term “Yugoslav felony legislation” understands all felony justice provisions set forth in the laws of the federation, republics and autonomous provinces. Provisions on academic measures and punishment of juveniles, which are in force in the place where a person who has dedicated a felony act is tried, apply when a juvenile or an adult who was juvenile on the time of the commission of a criminal act is tried for a legal act outlined in the federal criminal code, and in criminal codes of republics and autonomous provinces.
What Is A Criminal Report Check? Authorized Legal
Whoever becomes a member of an affiliation referred to in paragraph 1 of this text, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year. Whoever, by insulting residents or in some other means, incites nationwide, racial or spiritual hostility, shall be punished by imprisonment for a time period exceeding three months but not exceeding three years. Whoever by means of propaganda or in some other way incites or followers nationwide, racial or spiritual hatred or discord between peoples and nationalities residing within the SFRJ, shall be punished by imprisonment for a time period exceeding one year however not exceeding 10 years. Whoever, with the intention of distributing, manufactures or copies enemy propaganda material, or who holds this materials despite figuring out that it is supposed for the distribution, shall be punished by imprisonment for a term exceeding six months however not exceeding 5 years. Whoever dispatches or transfers agitators or propaganda material into the territory of the SFRJ for the aim of carrying out actions referred to in paragraph 1 of this text, shall be punished by imprisonment for not lower than one yr. Whoever commits an act referred to in paragraph 1 of this text with a assist or underneath influence from overseas, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than three years.
In considering whether or not to impose the more severe punishment the court shall take special account of the similarity among the felony acts committed, the motives from which they were committed, in addition to the need that such a punishment be imposed for the sake of accomplishing the purpose of punishment. The punishment of confiscation of property could also be imposed only for the felony acts for which it is expressly prescribed, and when a punishment of imprisonment for a term of a minimum of three years has been imposed on the offender. If a nice can’t be collected by coercion, a court docket shall perform the execution of this punishment by ordering a day of imprisonment for each 100 dinars of the fine, offering that the term of imprisonment could not exceed six months. A convicted person who has served half of his time period of imprisonment, and exceptionally a convicted one that has served a 3rd of his term, may be exempted from serving the rest of his term on the situation that he does not commit a new criminal act by the end of the period encompassed by his sentence . The punishment of imprisonment is imposed in full years and months, however prison terms not exceeding six months may be measured in full days. Punishments supplied by the current Code might solely be imposed if respectively prescribed for a given felony act. The courtroom may enhance or cut back the punishment supplied for an offence solely subject to the situations laid down by the present Code.
Findlaw Authorized Dictionary
The courtroom might impose mandatory psychiatric treatment outdoors jail defined underneath paragraph 1 of this text on an offender whose responsibility is considerably diminished and who has been granted parole on the idea of Article 63, paragraph 3 of this law. Mandatory psychiatric therapy and custody in a well being institution, and obligatory psychiatric remedy exterior jail shall be imposed independently on a mentally incompetent perpetrator of a legal act. Besides these measures, the court may also order a prohibition to carry out a certain occupation, activity or obligation, bar to public appearance, prohibition towards driving a motor vehicle and confiscation of property. The courtroom could impose a number of security measures on an individual who has dedicated a felony act when grounds exist for their utility pursuant to the current code. A court might order protecting supervision in opposition to an offender who has been subject to a suspended sentence for a legal act outlined within the federal law, if the sentence is supplied for within the legislation of republic or autonomous province during which the offender is on trial. The court shall revoke a suspended sentence when after it has been imposed, it becomes identified that the offender had committed a legal act prior to the imposition of the suspended sentence, and if it is felt by the courtroom that grounds would have been missing for the imposition of a suspended sentence had the existence of that offence been recognized.
OJ Simpson’s trials served to reveal the differences between criminal and civil legal guidelines. Criminal and civil laws vary on how juries decide the deliverance of a responsible verdict and the forms of punishments dealt to the shedding defendant.
Criminal Law Types
defendant – In a civil swimsuit, the person complained in opposition to; in a felony case, the particular person accused of the crime. Judges typically use “court docket” to refer to themselves in the third individual, as in “the courtroom has read the briefs.” Aspiring felony legal professionals can take focused courses on this topic on the best way to earning a Juris Doctor (J.D.) diploma.
They may participate in criminal regulation clinics that present real-world training within the field. Three extremely ranked legislation colleges – Harvard University, Stanford University, and Cornell University – have a number of the best criminal regulation programs in the United States. These universities provide Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree applications and clinical schooling alternatives.
Anybody who with intent commenced the execution of a criminal act but has not accomplished it, shall be punished for the attempt of only these criminal acts for which there’s according to statute a sentence of five years’ imprisonment or a more severe penalty. With regard to other criminal acts attempt is punishable solely when so supplied by statute. Preparation of a felony act could also be defined by regulation as a separate legal act, or the legislation may provide punishment for the preparation of a particular legal act. The court might scale back the punishment of the perpetrator of a legal act who had justifiable cause for not figuring out that his conduct was prohibited, and it could additionally grant remission of punishment. A particular person isn’t criminally accountable if on the time of committing a criminal act he was not aware of some statutory factor of it; or if he mistakenly believed that circumstances existed which, if they’d really existed, would render such conduct permissible. A legal act is committed negligently when the offender is conscious that a prohibited consequence could occur however carelessly assumes that it’s going to not happen or that he’ll be able to avert it; or when he was unaware of the possibility that a prohibited consequence would possibly occur although, underneath the circumstances and by his personal characteristics, he should and could have been conscious of this risk. | <urn:uuid:ab358c15-8afb-4c03-9863-9214bc60b4f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jehovahswitnesstruth.com/felony-legal-definition-of-criminal.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96112 | 1,605 | 1.609375 | 2 |
What Is a Constructive Discharge Claim?
A constructive discharge claim is a lawsuit filed by an employee who has quit a job because the conditions under which they were working had become intolerable, primarily on purpose with the goal of forcing the employee to leave. Constructive discharge claims are said to begin accruing on the date of the last adverse action of the employer.
- A constructive discharge claim is a lawsuit filed by an employee who has left their job because the working conditions had become intolerable.
- Working conditions by an employer are sometimes made intolerable on purpose with the objective of forcing the employee to resign.
- A constructive discharge claim must show that the employer's actions were done to indirectly punish the employee when it could not directly punish the employee.
- Typically, an employee must file a constructive discharge claim from the time the inappropriate action occurred but can also be after they quit.
Understanding a Constructive Discharge Claim
In order for a constructive discharge claim to be considered, the claim must demonstrate that the employer’s actions allowed it to indirectly punish (such as through hour reductions) the employee when it could not directly punish (such as by verbally accosting the employee) the employee until they quit.
During the course of a claims investigation, the focus is on the conduct of the employer more so than it is on the conduct of the employee. Because the employer may not be able to solve problems surrounding a claim after an extended time period, constructive discharge claims must be filed within a certain time period after an employer’s actions occur.
The time period typically begins on the date that the employer is said to have acted improperly, though in some cases the employee may have until the date of quitting before the time period begins. The employee may be required to try to resolve the issue before a claim is made.
As an example, consider if an employee indicates that they have been passed over for a promotion for a reason other than performance, such as gender or race. The employee’s manager, after hearing of the employee’s complaint, places the employee on leave because of non-performance despite the employee recently receiving a positive performance review.
The employee may file a constructive discharge claim indicating that conditions at the office deteriorated after being passed over for the promotion and that the employer indeed retaliated. In this case, the employer may be determined to have acted improperly.
Constructive Discharge Scenarios
The following are some scenarios that could qualify as leading to a constructive discharge.
- Employee was the victim of sexual harassment by a supervisor or boss
- Employee was the victim of sexual harassment by a co-worker and complained to management, but management failed to address the problem, which then continued
- Employee was treated badly at work because of their age, sex, race, national origin, religious beliefs, or disability
- Employee made a reasonable complaint that they believed they were being treated badly because of age, sex, race, etc., and management responded ineffectively and the environment became even more hostile. This is known as an unlawful retaliation claim.
- Employee took leave under FMLA, sought overtime to which they believed they were entitled, sought a reasonable accommodation under ADA, or filed a workers' compensation claim, and thereafter was retaliated against by the employer
- Employee made a whistleblower complaint and was thereafter subjected to a hostile work atmosphere
Can You Sue for Constructive Discharge?
Yes, an individual is allowed to sue for constructive discharge even if they resigned rather than being laid off or fired. An employee would have to show that the employer purposefully created intolerable conditions that led to the employee resigning.
What Are Some Common Reasons for Claiming Constructive Discharge?
Common reasons for claiming constructive discharge include an employer reducing your working hours, demoting you, not taking action when you were harassed at work, withholding pay, making unacceptable changes to your workday, and not providing the support needed to carry out your responsibilities.
Is It Hard to Prove Constructive Discharge?
Yes, it is usually hard to prove constructive discharge. The burden of proof lies with the employee and they have to present specific facts that prove the employer created a hostile work environment that led to or would lead to them resigning. Given the complexity of workplaces and the various decisions that employers make regarding a company, it can be difficult to prove certain actions were taken that led to constructive discharge. | <urn:uuid:7117a084-5bde-47f1-acd7-bd14642bb50c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/constructive-discharge-claim.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970795 | 901 | 1.75 | 2 |
Council of State Governments
Established in 1933, the Council of State Governments is the only multi-branch state association in the nation. It offers leadership training, provides research and information products, and focuses on regional problem-solving in an effort to increase states' efficiency and productivity. It keeps offices across the United States that staff regional associations of legislative and executive officials.
Energy Communities Alliance
Energy Communities Alliance is an organization of local governments that are impacted by Department of Energy (DOE) activities. Its mission is to have local government officials in Department of Energy-impacted communities share information, establish policy positions, and advocate community interests in order to address a complicated set of constituent, environmental, regulatory, and economic development needs.
ICLEI USA’s mission is to build, serve, and drive a movement of local governments to advance deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. As the only global organization helping cities and counties of all sizes achieve energy and climate planning goals, ICLEI provides tools and resources, delivers innovative programming, and fosters a robust network of local governments both in the U.S. and around the world who are catalyzing effective ways to combat climate pollution and scaling local sustainability efforts.
National Association of Counties
The National Association of Counties was founded in 1935 when county officials wanted to have a strong voice in the nation's capital. Its membership includes more than 2,000 counties, representing over 80 percent of the nation's population. As a full-service organization, it provides an extensive array of services including legislative, research, technical, and public affairs assistance, as well as enterprise services to its members
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' (NARUC) mission is to serve the public interest by improving the quality and effectiveness of public utility regulation. Its membership includes the governmental agencies that regulate utilities and carriers in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Its member agencies are responsible for regulating the activities of telecommunications, energy, and water utilities.
National Association of State Energy Officials
The National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) is the only organization that represents the designated energy officials from each state and territory. The organization was created to improve the effectiveness and quality of state energy programs and policies, provide policy input and analysis, share successes among the states, and be a repository of information on energy issues of concern to the states and their citizens.
National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates
The National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA) is an association of 44 consumer advocates in 42 states and the District of Columbia. Its members are designated by the laws of their respective jurisdictions to represent the interests of utility consumers before state and federal regulators and in the courts.
National Conference of Black Mayors
The National Conference of Black Mayors (NCBM) was created in 1974. It serves over 500 mayors nationwide, who in turn represent more than 30 million citizens. Its mission is to enhance the executive management capacity of its members for the purpose of governing viable municipalities.
National Conference of State Legislatures
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) was founded in 1975. As a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states and territories, it provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing and urgent state issues.
National League of Cities
The National League of Cities (NLC) is the oldest and largest national organization representing municipal governments throughout the United States. Its mission is to strengthen and promote cities as centers of opportunity, leadership, and governance. Working in partnership with the 49 state municipal leagues, the National League of Cities serves as a resource to and an advocate for more than 18,000 cities, villages, and towns that it represents.
National Governors Association
The National Governors Association (NGA) is the collective voice of the nation's governors and one of Washington, D.C.'s most respected public policy organizations. It provides governors and their senior staff with services that range from representing states on Capitol Hill and before the Administration on key federal issues to developing policy reports on innovative state programs and hosting networking seminars for state government executive branch officials. It also provides management and technical assistance to both new and incumbent governors.
New England Governors Conference
The New England Governors' Conference (NEGC) was established in 1937 by the governors of the six state New England region to promote economic development. It coordinates regional policy programs in the areas of economic development, transportation, environment, energy, and health, among others.
Southern Governors Association
The Southern Governors Association is the oldest of the regional governors' associations. Since its founding, it has represented the common interests of its fifteen state membership and provided a vehicle for promoting them. The current priorities of the organization are to support the work of the governors by providing a bipartisan, regional forum to help shape and implement national policy and to resolve state and regional problems.
United States Conference of Mayors
The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of greater than 30,000. Currently, there are 1,139 such cities in the country today and each is represented in the Conference by its mayor. The primary functions of the Conference of Mayors are to promote the development of effective national urban/suburban policy, strengthen ties with the federal government, ensure that federal policy meets urban needs, and to create an environment in which mayors can share ideas and information.
Western Governors Association
With eighteen member states, the Western Governors Association (WGA) is the largest of the regional governors' associations. Its agenda includes: developing sustainable economies and land use practices, strengthening state and federal energy policy, improving drought preparedness and ensuring Western water supply and quality, and maintaining healthy forests and rangelands. | <urn:uuid:01688fb4-abc0-49c1-83d0-1b86a0036c0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.energy.gov/congressional/intergovernmental-external-affairs/helpful-organizations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.946421 | 1,195 | 2.359375 | 2 |
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) – The top of the COVID-19 unit at Gundersen Well being in La Crosse has a message for younger folks, get vaccinated.
Physician Joshua Whitson made an impassioned plea in a Fb video on the hospital’s web site describing the dire scenario he sees at work.
He stated he’s seeing hospital beds, together with these within the intensive care unit, filling up once more with COVID-19 sufferers. Most of them are unvaccinated.
Whitson fears the scenario may worsen as college students return to their school campuses for the autumn semester.
“The severity of illness is it appears to be a lot worse than it was beforehand,” he stated.
Whitson stated not like earlier waves, younger folks, who’re in any other case wholesome, are getting very sick. Some are dying.
“Not solely are they youthful however they’re getting a lot sicker a lot quicker,” he stated.
Whitson stated the present scenario reminds him of a 12 months in the past, proper earlier than western Wisconsin’s fall 2020 COVID-19 case surge.
“We actually are involved,” stated Paula Silha of the La Crosse County Well being Division.
She fears a significant case spike as soon as college students return.
“These children are coming from everywhere in the United States and a few worldwide areas,” Silha stated. “And so there’s a number of illness, a number of virus that may be introduced into the group after which we all know what school children do. What do school children do once they get collectively?”
Eau Claire Metropolis-County Well being Division Director Lieske Giese stated she additionally fears college students returning to campus may result in extra COVID-19 circumstances.
“We noticed a rise in circumstances within the 18-24 inhabitants final 12 months right now,” she stated.
Giese stated a 12 months in the past, the County was averaging 9 circumstances per day. Now it’s averaging about 30 day by day.
Each Giese and Silha stated mitigation behaviors like carrying a masks and social distancing are necessary however getting vaccinated is the most effective safety from the virus.
“Getting vaccinated makes a distinction,” Giese stated. “It actually lets you be a lot much less more likely to be hospitalized or to die from COVID-19.”
Whitson stated there are actual penalties to remaining unvaccinated.
“It’s a tragic factor to observe and it’s a tragic factor to speak to their households as they’re desperately hoping their family members are going to do properly.”
All three faculties and universities in La Crosse County, in addition to the 2 in Eau Claire County, are requiring folks masks up indoors no matter vaccination standing.
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A-STEP Sleep Technologist Training Program
The field of sleep disorders medicine, or polysomnography, continues to grow, along with the demand for highly skilled, well-trained technologists in this field.
To keep pace with this growth, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) has developed the Accredited Sleep Technologist Education Program (A-STEP). Designed to promote the standardization of sleep technology training, the program has two specific educational goals:
- To serve as an initiative to promote the field-wide improvement of sleep technologist training programs
- To equip students with the foundational understanding and practical skills essential for a successful career in the profession of sleep technology
Accredited in 2007 by AASM, Henry Ford Allegiance Health is honored to be the region’s largest and longest running provider of sleep technology training.
If you are detail-oriented, organized and have the drive to succeed, Henry Ford Allegiance Health has a planned track of progression. to ensure you advance and excel in the profession of sleep technology. The first step to entering the field of sleep technology and becoming an integral part of one of the fastest growing areas of medicine is to complete the A-STEP program.
The next A-STEP course will be August 1, 2022 - August 12, 2022. Proof of up-to-date vaccination status, including COVID-19 vaccination, is required to attend course.
- Program overview
- Tuition and registration
- Program acceptance checklist
- Student Registration (submit via email)
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Finding a Fast Food Fix
Fast food is typically higher in calories, fat, sugar & salt. It can also be lower in key nutrients while increasing risk for obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes & heart disease. The goal is to still enjoy the convenience of fast food while finding a better choice.
Restaurant chains with 20+ locations are now required to post calories on menus, making it easier for consumers to be more aware of the lower-calorie options. Follow these simple tips to help cut the calories and find a more balanced fast meal.
Tip #1: Plan ahead before you go to determine the better choices. Check the website for menu calories and look for an entrée under 500 calories.
Tip #2: Watch the beverages – sweet tea, soda, lemonade, and shakes add up in calories quick! You could save a couple hundred calories by choosing water.
Tip #3: A simple swap or hold can also save hundreds of calories. Swap crispy for grilled. Swap fries for fruit. Hold the cheese. Hold the sauce. Hold the bun. Extra veggies. Dressings on the side.
Try other fast alternatives like Starbuck’s, utilize Panera Bread’s or order from . Check out our team’s favorite fast food picks below and even more ideas on our .
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The charity is currently transporting over 250 children from Docklands to Disneyland Paris, in a convoy of London’s infamous black cabs.
And lunch will provided by West India Quay’s Manhattan Grill restaurant for the children and their families. The event, organised annually by the Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers, offers sick children a break from therapy and treatment.
The acclaimed steak restaurant pitches in annually to provide lunch boxes filled with delicious treats for children with life-threatening illnesses, racking up a total of 24,000 packed lunches since the restaurant first participated.
Speaking about the charitable deed, restaurant manager Henning Kramer said: “It brings our team immense amounts of joy every year to be able to contribute to this amazing and important event. When we’re making hundreds of sandwiches for the packed lunches we try to have a bit of fun with it, so we hold competitions between the kitchen team and the waiting team to see who can make the most sandwiches in the least amount of time. The kitchen team always wins of course!”
The amazing black cab convoy, which left from Docklands this morning, is over three miles long, consisting of 90+ taxis, City of London Police escorts, Gendarmerie Nationale, London Ambulance NHS Trust vehicles and AA breakdown trucks.
50 taxis undertook the first trip in 1994 with 100 children and by the Millennium year the number had increased to 125 taxis with 250 children. To date, 2200 taxis have taken almost 4400 children to Disneyland, including some drivers that have participated every year since 1994, completing nearly 15,000 unpaid miles of driving.
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Study of incidence of Melioidosis for a period of one year and eight months in a Tertiary care Hospital, Kerala, South India
Melioidosis is caused by a gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei is geographically restricted to South East Asia & Northern Australia. In India many cases have been reported in recent years. This study was undertaken to analyze the varied clinical presentation and increased incidence of melioidosis. We carried out a retrospective study of eight cultures proven cases of melioidosis at a tertiary care hospital in Kerala, South India between July 2014 and Feb 2016.
Melioidosis infection in human beings may present as two forms, acute or chronic. The clinical presentation of melioidosis is highly variable and may mimic those of tuberculosis. Microbiological culture remains the standard method for the diagnosis of melioidosis. Treatment is usually divided into two phases, intensive phase for 10-14 days and eradication phase for a minimum of 12- 24 weeks. Currently there is no licensed vaccine available for melioidosis.
The commonest risk factor in our study was diabetes and alcoholism was the second commonest risk factor for melioidosis. But host immunity compromise may not a prerequisite for Melioidosis, as it can occur in any healthy children or adults. The disease has been shown to mimic tuberculosis. Abscess was the most common clinical presentation (87.5%) in contrast to earlier studies which showed fever as most common presentation.
The incidence of melioidosis cases are increasing in India, as in rest of the world. Increase in diabetic patients in Indian population is one of the important risk factor for increased incidence and also increased awareness among clinicians and microbiologists resulting in better recognition and reporting.
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Under the OTN/MEOPAR Glider Program — the first and only program of its kind in Canada — Slocum and Wave Gliders have travelled thousands of kilometres tracking whales, snow crab, sharks, seals, and offloading tracking stations around the Northwest Atlantic.
Thanks to new funding from CFI and the Research Nova Scotia Trust — $2.9M from each announced last week (October 24), the OTN is expanding its glider fleet to include a new generation Wave Glider and two Slocum gliders to continue work collecting oceanographic information and providing additional tracking and monitoring capacity for climate, weather and oceanographic scientists.
The new gliders will help look at cod movement under Dalhousie’s DAMOS (Development of Autonomous Marine Observation Systems). DAMOS also serves the ongoing right whale monitoring in partnerships with MEOPAR and Dalhousie scientists.
The CFI contribution to the DAMOS project is part of a larger $554 million investment announced by the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, minister of science, at the University of Manitoba on October 12, 2017. In total, 117 new infrastructure projects at 61 universities, colleges and research hospitals across Canada received funding.
Memorial University: $4.8 million from Canada Foundation for Innovation for critical marine research
CTV News Atlantic via Canadian Press: N.S. government announces $6.5M for ocean research projects
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Professionals from a range of therapeutic disciplines join with social work colleagues in local authority children’s services departments to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families. Many of these professionals are situated in contexts outside of the child protection (CP) system, for example, in local CAMHS services, or the voluntary and private sector. Increasingly local authorities have employed clinicians, such as family therapists, child psychotherapists and clinical psychologists to work internally alongside social workers on a day-to-day basis. Such clinicians can be referred to as ‘embedded’ in local authority structures. This article considers three recursive and interlinked processes – joining, contracting and intervening – that occupy the clinician in the process of becoming embedded. Embedding clinical practice at the level of senior management is not dealt with here, but ideas may be compatible, as they might be to other organisations that integrate professional disciplines, such as therapists or social workers working within schools (see Dowling and Osborne, 1985).
As the founder of structural family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, said: ‘Like the anthropologist, the family therapist joins the culture with which he is dealing’ (1974, pp.124). This idea can be seen as applicable to the joining of all human systems. For instance, in his celebrated ethnography of a Chicago boxing gym, Lois Wacquant (2006) realised that if he was to research the boxing gym culture, he was expected to learn how to box, to experience the pugilistic perspective. As an outsider to the gym, the position ascribed to him was largely pre-determined by the existing members of the club. In the case of the clinician, this is not radically different. At the start, he or she typically enriches their perspective on the child protection social worker’s reality and the wider organisational system by engaging in acts that the social work system conceives for them. This can often involve being positioned in ways that feel uncomfortable for clinicians, that may not chime with their expectations or preferred self-image of how to operate from their therapeutic discipline. Nonetheless, observing the rules of the system – its culture, policies, procedures, team dynamics – from the relative position of an outsider is, in many respects, a necessary initial vantage point for the clinician to become orientated to the system, which precedes their capacity to influence it (Tomm, 1988).
In contrast to being a social worker, the clinical role is not mandated by a statutory duty, but a set of operational beliefs and resources that support it. Outsider-ness is thus a position that bears direct relation to the insider-ness, or the private grammar and set of rules (within a public organisation) that determines what the child protection system does as a statutory service. The norms and values that underpin these rules are internalised by social workers over time as they perform the discourses and activities available to them in the CP context. Outsiders might not be trusted to uphold these norms or values. Unspoken and spoken rules may emerge that organise relationships with clinicians and their positions in the service, such as ‘clinicians do not go out on section 47 investigations’, ‘clinicians only work voluntary Early Help cases’, ‘clinicians work with wealthier families’, or ‘clinicians work mental health cases’. Rules transformed into patterns of practice give clues with respect to the boundaries that the CP system wishes to hold in relation to clinicians, and the beliefs they hold about them.
Joining the system is the first step towards the clinician developing a helpful and supportive relationship to the social work system and thereby potentially influencing it in myriad ways. Typically, joining is achieved through rapport-building, empathy, active-listening, developing trust, openness, curiosity and using simple relevant language. But these skills (common to good social work practice and therapeutic work) do not alone constitute joining. Joining is the process through which the clinician identifies and connects with the rules of the system, moving from the outside to the inside, so that the system may acknowledge the clinician – and their specific contribution – as a part of the system and not apart from the system. This can be a slow process of trial and error, and can be disrupted by events outside of the clinician’s control, such as changes to staffing, budgeting or revisions to preferred models of practice.
A ‘space-between’ (Flaskas, 2005) these different and collaborating systems is however to be nurtured to set a context for the co-creation of new perspectives, the tentative merging of beliefs and the step-by-step challenging of boundaries to create alternative patterns of behaviour in the system. This is not always straight-forward: boundaries in the CP system are sensitively monitored and its statutory duty to safeguard children from harm can be highly pressurised. The space-between the social work system and clinician can therefore mitigate against a potential perceived threat of outsiders in the organisation, to allow for the CP system to identify the clinician as an ally in their work with children and families. In turn (and over time), the ‘space between’ can evolve, allowing for the growth of a mutually enriching relationship.
There are however certain pitfalls that come with the narrowing or widening of the boundaries between social work and clinical systems. For the clinician to get too close to the social work system is to risk replicating the role of a social worker, without the statutory mandate to do so. On the other end of the continuum, if the space between is too wide, then the clinician can become potentially inaccessible and irrelevant to the social work system. In-between these two positions is a space where there is room for negotiation and flexibility, where ideas and differences can be shared and respected.
Figure 1. Examples of different boundaries between social worker and clinician
Too close (enmeshed)
Too far way (diffuse)
|Telling the social work system what to do||Disconnecting from core statutory processes and planning||Uniting in the common end to keep a child safe and improve their well-being|
|Taking on roles and responsibilities assigned to the social worker||Pursuing personal therapeutic missions away from social work system||Social workers inviting clinicians to problem-solve and be curious about their case-work|
|Assuming positions of expertise and superiority in relation to the case-work||Assuming positions of overwhelming passivity and not sharing skills/knowledge||Generating ideas together without pressure to use them, or privileging some over others|
|Unwilling to learn and develop from social work practice outside of their therapeutic discipline||Accepting the demands of the social work system without offering alternative suggestions||Validating the difference and similarity between respective models of practice|
|Seeking to take control over a safeguarding or threshold decision||Losing interest and curiosity in the threads and development of the case-work||Negotiating roles and responsibilities to best serve the social work system in its work with the family|
When the clinician has joined the social work system, then he or she is more likely to be invited into spaces where social worker and clinician can combine forces to agree a piece of work together. Subsequently, this acts as a further opportunity to enrich the clinician’s relationship to the CP system and therefore potentially contract further work.
Figure 2. Joining and contracting between social worker and clinician
Contracting work with the social work system happens in many of the same spaces where joining occurs, which requires a consistent effort especially as cases and services evolve and members of staff come and go. Typically, a contract for a clinician to work alongside the social work system is an invitation into one of the following spaces: Team meetings, Case consultations; Reflective practice groups; Home visits; Joint sessions with children and families; Statutory meetings, such as ICPCs, Legal Planning Meetings, LAC Reviews; Supervision between social worker and manager.
The success or failure of this professional dance may depend on the ability of both systems to agree a clear focus for their work together in one or more of these contexts, for example: Generating hypotheses about a case in a consultation; Using a reflective practice group (RPG) to focus on a case dilemma; Joining a social worker on a home visit to assess risk to the children; Working together to engage a parent in the child protection process; Stopping and preventing the use of physical chastisement towards the children.
The contract between social worker and clinician is thus an episode-specific agreement that consolidates them as colleagues working together towards a particular goal. This agreement may be required for a single meeting, or maybe ongoing for an extended period, depending on the piece of work. What is necessary, in addition to a clear focus for the work, is a clear definition of the roles that clinician and social worker will take when working together. For example, it would be a clinician’s role in a consultation to create a context for the co-construction of ideas related to a case. When conducting a joint home visit, the social worker will likely take the lead explaining core statutory safeguarding processes, however there may be times when the roles feel more blurred, with both social worker and clinician setting the context for intervention, posing questions, reflections and interacting with family members.
These matters need broadly to be agreed at the outset like a doubles-team in a tennis match, working out who will stay on the baseline, and who will go to the net, or whether they will stay more aligned (with allowance for flexibility and spontaneity). Neither social worker nor clinician wants to get into a muddle about who is leading the session, what is its purpose, who is taking notes, what are the safeguarding concerns etc. Likewise, children and families also ought to be helped to understand how the synthesis of social work and clinical roles effects their expectations of the intervention, particularly in terms of safeguarding responsibilities, and how the clinician will be contributing to the case-work (see Harvey & Van de Vijver, 2019).
All forms of clinical intervention assist the social work system to perform its multiple complex tasks, in two primary ways:
- supporting the social work system to reflect upon its work with children and families, and
- supporting the social work system by engaging directly with children and families.
These two primary clinical work-streams are anchored in an effective joining process and clear contracting with the social work system. A clinician however needs to be mindful of which of the above contexts they are being invited into. Often, the social work system will have an expectation that the clinician see the children or family for therapy, when a more promising intervention may be to support the social work system to develop their conception of the case, and the intervention required to meet the children’s needs, prior to supporting them to undertake it. For example, a clinician may be asked to see parents ‘to help with their communication difficulties’, when it may be more advantageous to support the social work system to assess and plan an appropriate intervention to protect the children from the effects of being triangulated in their parents’ conflict. This could potentially reframe the risk profile of the case, which can create new forms of coherence around the related issues and reflects the systemic adage that change in one area of the system impacts other parts of the system. It may also be received as too challenging, or too different to the existing coherence of the social work plan and not be welcome. On the other hand, a clinician may be asked to help the social work team develop hypotheses and process complex feelings arising from a high-risk case, when it may be more useful for the clinician to be seeing the family alongside the social worker to mitigate against the risks to the children. Intervention is thus rooted in the quality of the joining and contracting processes to complete a triadic circular relationship in which the clinician becomes embedded.
Figure 3. Circuit of embedding clinical practice
Based upon the clearly defined goal that will enable the social work plan, the clinician sets forth on intervening to help achieve those ends. For example, a clinician may undertake a number of family therapy sessions, with the support of the social worker, or complete a Cognitive Assessment, or the Child Attachment Interview (CAI) as part of a court assessment, or be instructed to complete a parenting assessment as an expert witness. A clinician may co-ordinate NVR (Non-Violent Resistance) with a family, or VIG (Video Interactive Guidance), or deliver other evidence-base therapeutic interventions to children and families, or provide regular consultations on a case. Intervention can therefore occur in a variety of forms; however all interventions are anchored in the social work and clinical system (no matter the scale) engaging together with mutual respect for each other’s contribution to improving outcomes for vulnerable children. Many interventions, such as supporting a social worker to adapt their beliefs about the protectiveness of a father, or shifting narratives of ‘blame’ and ‘guilt’ for a young person open to a Youth Offending Team can often go un-noticed amidst the complex working of a CP system. Noticing and amplifying these small acts of change can create a ripple effect through the system that promotes greater possibilities for more joining and contracting between social work and clinical service. Witnessing and documenting (White, 1994) these moments can also attract the attention of other practitioners, and their managers, with whom the clinician may connect. This recursive process may lead to wider systems change that normalises clinicians as embedded members of the social work system. Some may become embedded to the extent that they are invited¬¬¬ to influence other areas of practice across the service.
This article considers three interlinked and recursive processes – joining, contracting and intervening – that help clinicians from a range of different therapeutic disciplines to become embedded practitioners in child protection social work settings. It suggests that the process of becoming embedded is an active and constantly evolving one, which requires the sensitive and effective application of clinical skills in a range of situations. By engaging carefully and thoughtfully in the processes of joining, contracting and intervening, then the clinician can move from the position of an ‘outsider’ to an ‘insider’, and become increasingly embedded – and therefore valued – in the CP system. From this position, as a part of the CP system, then the clinician is able to have a greater influence on the lives of vulnerable children and families, as well as on the social workers who support them.
About Jamie Evans
Jamie is a social worker and family therapist. He works as an ‘embedded’ clinician for Westminster Children’s Services and as a family therapist for the Family Trauma Team at the Anna Freud Centre.
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Two decades of improving practices in security operations
On December 20, 2000, the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom jointly announced the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights.
Created to address the challenges faced by oil and mining companies in protecting the safety and security of their operations while ensuring human rights were protected, the Principles were designed to become a global standard in the industry.
The Voluntary Principles were born from a joint effort that included not only governments but also leading extractive companies and NGOs. Until today, its collaborative aspect is one of its more important strengths, bringing together 65 Members and Observers that work cooperatively to reduce human rights violations in business operations.
View the webinar – “Looking Back: Reflections on 20 Years of the Voluntary Principles”
Moderated by Edward Bickham, panelists representing founders or early members of the Voluntary Principles Initiative reflect on the beginnings and early vision of the VPs as well as their insights on progress and achievements so far.
Government of Australia – Chair of the Voluntary Principles Initiative
In this written piece, the Government of Australia, Chair of the VPI for 2020-2021, highlights the emerging challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic while the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights celebrates its 20th anniversary and the priorities that will help Members achieve the greatest positive impact in the current environment and the years ahead. Read more
Joel Bisina, Executive Director, LITE-Africa
In this video, Joel Bisina shares his views about key challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Voluntary Principles in Nigeria and its impact on local communities.
LITE-Africa is an NGO based in Nigeria and co-chair of a Working Group that works in the implementation of the Principles in the country. LITE-Africa is also a member of the Voluntary Principles Initiative. View now
Bennett Freeman, one of the founders of the VPs
In a new written piece, Bennett Freeman provides an in-depth reflection on the 20 years of the Voluntary Principles, its achievements and challenges, and a rich assortment of additional resources.
On the same page, you can also watch a video interview where Bennett recalls the events leading to the creation of the VPs, the challenges imposed by the implementation of the first multi-stakeholder initiative in the extractive sector, and the successes achieved. Read now
CME – Mining and Energy Committee on Security and Human Rights
In this video, the CME, an Observer of the Voluntary Principles Initiative since 2014, demonstrates the work that has been developed by multiple stakeholders in Colombia to support the implementation of the Voluntary Principles and promote the protection of human rights. View now
Marcus Addy, Senior Programme Officer, ICMM
On this commentary piece titled “Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights: Celebrating 20 years of partnership and collaboration to uphold human rights”, Marcus Addy highlights the importance of collaborative work between the International Council on Mining and Metals and the Voluntary Principles Initiative. Read more
Egbert Wesselink, Senior Advisor, PAX
In this written piece, Egbert Wesselink provides an analysis of the origin and purpose of the Voluntary Principles, the achievements and challenges over the last two decades, and the way forward for the Initiative and its members. Read more
Arvind Ganesan, Director of the Business and Human Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
In this video, Arvind Ganesan, one of the founders of the VPs, talks about how the Principles were developed, the relevance of the Voluntary Principles, and how he envisions the future of the Initiative. View now
With the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights now in their 20th year, a wealth of information has been gained on how to practically implement the principles at the country-level. Watch the recording of the session organized by the Government of Australia during the United Nations Virtual Forum on Responsible Business and Human Rights, with a particular reference to the Asia-Pacific region. Focus was given to current efforts to include human rights standards in the work practices of private security providers servicing the extractives industry. | <urn:uuid:e8c704a8-31ee-4661-8226-72510783c7bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.voluntaryprinciples.org/20th-anniversary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943056 | 861 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Our wise cartoon owl makes a lovely lacing card for younger children. Just print, cut out and punch.. Laminate if you wish to reuse.
Owl Lacing Card
Can you write an acrostic poem using the letters of OWL to begin each line? Tricky! Choose from the four printables below to help.
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Autumn and poetry go hand in hand. There is something inherently nostalgic and meditative about this time of year that points the mind to introspection. End-of-year wistfulness mixes with the excitement of going back to school, crisper weather, and the coming holidays.
Some poems set this emotionally rich time of year against the splendor of fall, as in John Keats’s “To Autumn” — “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…”
and Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” — “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…”
Other poems capture the elegiac melancholy of autumn, as in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Spring and Fall” to a young child:
MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Áh! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
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Diana Gabaldon has had a huge following for years with her Outlander series, the first novel of which, Cross Stitch, was released in 1991. This year, of course, the books have been made into a hit television series, Outlander — or as it’s known in my house “Sexy Men in Kilts”.
Claire Randall and her husband Frank have just returned from both serving in World War II and are getting reacquainted with each other in Scotland. Frank is a historian by trade, but has a special place in his heart for Inverness because one of his English ancestors, Captain Jack Randall, was stationed there. Former nurse Claire humors him, and explores the countryside, collecting samples for her hobby; medicinal herbs.
After watching a pagan ritual at some nearby standing stones one evening, Claire returns to explore the stones and finds herself transported through time. Almost immediately, she encounters her husband’s ancestor, Jack Randall, known as ‘Black Jack’ in this era — and is rescued by one of the previously mentioned sexy men in kilts. Her nursing knowledge comes in handy when she has to tend the wounds of one of her rescuers, Jamie McTavish.
Drama, rebellion, witchcraft trials, true love and sexy men in kilts ensue.
These books are, as I said, a favourite of many, and the Library has most (if not all) of the titles, including some of the spin-off Lord John novels.
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Rich Miller over at Data Center Knowledge just blew my mind with his list of the number of servers various companies run. Spurred by the news that Rackspace (s RAX) has 50,000 of them, he pored over public filings and at least one analyst report to come up with both actual and guesstimated figures, including 48,000 (that’s straight from the company) for Akamai (s AKAM) and more than 450,000 (that’s a guess) for Google (s GOOG). The numbers are mind-blowing from a management and an energy consumption perspective. They bring home the fact that scalable computing is not just about thousands of servers, but tens of thousands of servers.
The act of managing all these servers is one reason Cisco (s csco) thinks its unified computing system has an edge and why most of the large server vendors are preaching the value of automation. Ted Schadler, a Forrester analyst, told me on Friday that one of the biggest shifts in thinking for IT folks contemplating the cloud isn’t just the idea of virtualization but the fact that all those machines must be automated. Whereas a corporate data center may have one person for every 50 servers, Schadler says the Googles and Amazons of the world need to be able to manage some 10,000 servers with just one admin. | <urn:uuid:575463f9-0a84-4034-b227-7e06f9600c74> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://old.gigaom.com/2009/05/14/forget-the-mile-high-club-whos-in-the-50000-servers-club/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.933308 | 287 | 1.617188 | 2 |
In today’s episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast we talk to Cole Grossinger about his experiences with head injuries. Cole is now a student at the University of Western in London, Ontario. After his second concussion he could no longer play for his school’s volleyball team. We are so grateful that Cole talks about his story for the first time in this much detail.
The American Academy of Paediatrics has reported that emergency room visits for concussions in kids ages 8 to 13 years old has doubled, and concussions have risen 200 percent among teens ages 14 to 19 in the last decade. This is quite scary. Almost everyone we talk to these days has an experience in their family or with a friend who has had a severe concussion. It’s an important subject and we hope you share this podcast so people can not only be more aware about concussions, but really understand that it is not safe to hurry back into the game.
In this episode we discuss:
- Cole’s athletic career
- His first concussion in High School
- Symptoms, treatments, recovery
- Taking time off school
- Not hurrying back into the game or into life
- His second concussion in University
- Making the decision not to play anymore
- Filling that void
- What schools/coaches and parents can do
- “Sideline Checks”
- Second impact syndrome and an athlete’s responsibility
- How certain school regions are dealing with concussion
- Cole’s message to parents, coaches and athletes
Links to things we mentioned:
CDC – Heads Up Campaign
Head Case (Stats):
Concussion Rates Double Among High School Athletes: Report
Canada Should Follow Ontario’s Lead in Student Concussion Management Policy – The Globe and Mail
YRAA’s Concussion Protocol
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As the first weeks of the Covid-19 vaccines are wrapping up, many who’ve received it, be it the one manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, have posted selfies while getting their shots on social media, and are offering play-by-play details of any side effects. Most vaccine recipients, who have primarily been healthcare workers during these early weeks of vaccine distribution, have reported some arm soreness for a day. Some reported fevers, chills, fatigue, and headache, also for a day or less. There have been rare cases of severe allergic reactions, but even those were addressed and treated. For the vast majority, these minor symptoms pale in comparison to the feelings of elation, optimism, relief and vision of the beginning of the end of the pandemic.
Pictured below is Dr. Paul Offit, Infectious Disease Specialist and Virologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, receiving his Covid-19 vaccination.
But those who are trying to conceive, or considering pregnancy and/or in vitro fertilization (IVF) have concerns that the vaccines could impact fertility or lead to fetal loss. This concern has morphed into a whirlwind of social media lore that the vaccine should not be given to women considering conception. How could a vaccine preventing a respiratory illness lead to infertility? Well, it won’t, but several falsely-claiming social media posts purported a link between the spike protein formed by receiving the mRNA-based vaccines and blockage of a protein necessary for formation of and adherence to the uterus of the human placenta. Using scientific terms like the specific name of the protein, syncitin-1, placenta, antibodies, and sterilization, false claims sounding like science became science fiction quite quickly.
The protein syncitin-1 is critical for the placenta to remain attached to the uterus and act as the source of nutrition and blood supply to the fetus during pregnancy, but this is not the protein known as the Covid-19, or SARS-CoV-2, spike protein. The two share a few similar amino acids, but they are not the same proteins. At all. The antibodies produced against the Covid-19 spike protein will not block syncitin-1. While the Covid-19 spike protein shares several amino acids in common with syncitin-1, it is not similar enough (in fact, it’s not even close to similar enough) for the antibodies to recognize and block this critical placental binding protein.
During the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine study, there were 23 study participants who became pregnant during their vaccine trial. There was one pregnancy loss, but this was in a participant who received the placebo, not the vaccine.
While there is no evidence that acute Covid-19 infections cause infertility in the short- or long-term, there has been evidence that the acute viral infection can lead to orchitis, or inflammation of the testicles. This would not be unique to SARS-CoV-2, as other viruses such as mumps, hepatitis, and Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) can cause acute inflammation, and later scarring, of the testicles. As reported in Forbes by Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, the presence of ACE2 receptors in the testicles may mean that the coronavirus has a proclivity to set up shop in the scrotal sac.
In the FDA’s initial report on vaccine safety and recommendations for both newly released mRNA vaccines, they included pregnant women and those who are breastfeeding, as well as women wishing to conceive, as part of the group they would recommend to receive the vaccine in the initial roll-out to healthcare workers.
Pregnant women who have contracted SARS-CoV-2 infections have had especially difficult courses, and some have died and/or suffered fetal loss as a result of acute Covid-19 infections. Immunizing this group of pregnant and lactating women is recommended by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). In addition, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), which provides education, research and advocacy for high-risk pregnant women and their babies, recommended Covid-19 vaccine administration to pregnant healthcare workers in their December 1, 2020 statement.
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Energy voucher: financial assistance for your bills
Every year, the French are more and more concerned about the amount of their energy bill. These costs correspond to the gas and electricity consumption of a household. In 2021, for example, a survey by BPI France revealed a 3.3% increase in the price of energy in France. This increase varies according to the suppliers but remains global in all the local authorities. The price of these consumptions soars a little more each year so that some decide to lower their heating consumption even in winter. In order to deal with this social problem and prevent the population from finding themselves in difficult situations, it was decided to create financial aid for the most modest households who are suffering from this increase in the cost of their electricity bills. energy.
Thus, since 2018, the State has set up an energy check which is a financial aid for the households most in economic difficulty. This energy check can be used to pay an energy bill (gas and electricity) or for energy renovation work.
Who has the right to benefit from it? How do you know if you can apply for this help? What are the steps to take ? What is the amount of this energy check? Studapart answers all your questions!
What is the energy check? Definition
The energy check was set up in 2018 to replace the previous social assistance schemes for electricity and gas. Concretely, it is a check allowing you to pay your gas and electricity bills, a little like the restaurant tickets to which many companies give access to pay for lunches. In France, energy bill prices have been rising for several years. This check turns out to be a great help!
This check can be used to pay your gas and electricity bills but also to help you finance your energy renovation work which can lower your energy bills. Indeed, the amount of the energy bill corresponds to the consumption of your accommodation. If the accommodation is in poor condition, that is to say poorly insulated or with a boiler that is too old, consumption can explode and the bill will not be representative of your real energy needs. For example, windows that are too old let the cold through in winter and force you to significantly increase your heating consumption. It’s the same pattern for your walls as well as your floors. If you are a tenant, do not hesitate to request a window change from your landlord. Otherwise, use the energy check to carry out energy renovation work that will save you energy all year round. It is also important to monitor the condition of your boiler: a boiler that is too old is synonymous with overconsumption of energy. Change is therefore essential. You can choose your boiler according to the energy used: natural gas boilers are much more expensive than electric boilers, for example. Opt for the most economically attractive solution. If the amount of work may represent too high a cost for your household, rest assured because the energy check is made to support you in these expenses. Also, this work will allow you to save energy all year round and therefore reduce the amount of your energy bills.
The energy check is a social aid that has been set up to financially support French people affected by the increase in the price of electricity and gas. This is why the energy check is not distributed to all French households but is allocated subject to means testing. A threshold is determined, only households below this income threshold can benefit from it.
Who to send it to? Directly on the internet! Go to the website chequeenergie.gouv.fr and fill in the number of your check, the references of your energy contract and validate your file. The check will be deducted from your next bill.
If you are not too comfortable with the procedures on the internet, you can also send it by post. The addresses of suppliers can easily be found on the internet.
Energy voucher: who is eligible?
The energy check is a social aid distributed by the State. This means that it is intended for the most modest households. The eligibility condition is therefore that of income: if your income is below the eligibility threshold, you will therefore be able to benefit from the energy voucher.
The reference tax income which determines the eligibility of households for this financial aid was 10,700 euros per year. In 2022, this threshold was increased to reach 10,800 euros and therefore allows more French people to benefit from the energy voucher. On the other hand, all French people whose tax household exceeds this sum will not be able to receive the check.
What is the amount of the energy voucher?
The energy check helps the most modest French people to pay their bills relating to their energy consumption. However, not all households receive the same amount. The sum allocated is calculated according to the tax income of the household: the lower the tax income, the higher the amount of the energy voucher.
The amount of the energy voucher varies between 48 euros and 277 euros and amounts to an average of 200 euros. This average has increased by 50 euros since 2018. The maximum amount is allocated to households whose annual income is less than 5,600 euros.
In order to know what amount you can benefit from, you need to know the amount of your tax household as well as the number of parts of your tax household. If you live, your tax household is equal to 1 (if you have no dependent children).
The amount of the check is determined from 4 tax income brackets:
- the first is that of income below 5,600 euros: it entitles you to an energy check in the amount of 194€;
- the second is between 5,600 and 6,700 euros: the amount of the energy voucher will then be €146;
- the third is between 6,700 and 7,700 euros which entitles you to an additional €98 to pay your energy bills,
- and the fourth corresponds to tax income between 7,700 and 10,800 euros giving the right to an energy check in the amount of €48.
Tax households whose shares amount to between 1 and 2 units can benefit from 63 to 248 euros depending on the range in which they are located.
Finally, tax households whose shares are greater than two units can benefit from 76 to 277 euros, always depending on the range in which they are located.
You can easily find out the amount of your energy check and anticipate your expenses based on this help!
Let's take an example: a family made up of a couple and a child has 1.5 shares in their tax household and must not exceed 19,440 euros to benefit from the check. In the case where the income amounts to 8,563 euros, the household is placed in the fourth bracket and benefits from 63 euros of energy check.
Apply for an energy check
Applying for the energy voucher requires very few administrative procedures and is very easy to access. In reality, it does not require any action!
If you are eligible, you don't have to do anything. It is the Services and Payment Agency (ASP) which holds the list of beneficiaries of the energy voucher and which is responsible for sending it by post. The list is drawn up by the General Directorate of Public Finances.
The energy check will be sent directly to your address so that you can benefit from this state aid. The check is sent between March and April. Once received, you have one year to use your check from March 31 of the year of receipt.
The creation of this financial aid represented by the energy check aims to make access to energy in France fairer. This aid program is in addition to the 5.7 million euros that the French state distributes each year. If you are a student, a recent graduate, a young worker, your end of the month can be problematic at certain times of the year: do not hesitate to find out about the aid and the work you can undertake to save money. on the charges for your accommodation. | <urn:uuid:d3c73f76-a9dc-4b46-b2af-dc19227227a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.studapart.com/en/our-tips/moving/housing-allowances/energy-voucher-financial-assistance-your-bills | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961934 | 1,639 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Baxter Black: On The Edge Of Common Sense 8-26-13
“The data is clear — Calves that arrive healthy and stay healthy at the feedlot make more money.”
This was printed in bold letters at the beginning of an article in one of our industry publications.
What! I read the headline again. What’s the catch? I turned it over and read it upside down. It must be a trick question? A play on words? A bad pun? There must be a deeper meaning to this bold statement.
Should it have said … ”Calves who stay healthy, etc. have better eye sight, higher IQ’s, are tastier, are better at hopscotch, have a better chance of being featured in a vaccine ad?”
In all fairness to the scientist, or more probably the editor, they had a limited space and wanted to be succinct. And … it did catch my eye immediately. I guess it is our duty as scientists, veterinarians, nutritionists and farmers to run experiments to prove the obvious. Without this option how would students find material for post-graduate thesis?
However, I can picture scenarios where the statement is obvious, but not always true. The sky is always lighter when the sun comes up. “Duh.” Then an eclipse rises up.
The data is clear — Frogs who do not have their feet tied up can leap farther than frogs that have their legs taped to their body.
The horse that finishes first wins the race. Really? How ’bout a disqualification for making faces at the crowd, making fun of another jockey’s colors, or changing horses at the final turn?
I spent many years in feedlots. Lots of things were predictable, like mud, BRD, mill fires, OSHA inspections, blizzards, bovine escapes, and pickups that smell like pour-on, fermented silage, rumen contents, antibiotics, paint cans, burnt oil, and manure. But timing is crucial. Say the owner of pen No. 304 arrives just after the front end loader scraping that very same pen dozed off, flattened 10-feet of concrete bunk, tore out the gate, stripped the cable, and ran over four head of napping 1,200 pound steers. If the manager had only bought the visiting owner one more round of Spicy V-8 juice over lunch, they would have been able to have the remaining healthy steers in No. 304 moved to another pen and explained later.
And what is obvious to one of us isn’t always obvious to everyone. Can you imagine this question in an Animal Science Class at University of Nebraska, Lincoln:
1. Do cattle that arrive healthy and stay healthy at the feedlot make more money than cattle that arrive sick and stay sick?
c) It all depends on the market
But sometimes the logic becomes crystal clear. I was at a cattlemen’s meeting and overheard a cattle feeder remark, “The calves that got sick and died right away, made more than those that lingered on and died eventually.” ❖
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Find out the date, when is World Turtle Day 2018 and how many days until World Turtle Day 2018 with a countdown clock.
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World Turtle Day has always been observed annually on May 23. And in 2018, World Turtle Day is observed on Wednesday, May 23, 2018.
World Turtle Day 2018 Countdown
The World Turtle Day Countdown Clock will show you the number of days, hours, minutes & seconds until the next World Turtle Day.
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When is World Turtle Day?
- World Turtle Day 2017 is observed on Tuesday, May 23, 2017
- World Turtle Day 2018 is observed on Wednesday, May 23, 2018
- World Turtle Day 2019 is observed on Thursday, May 23, 2019
- World Turtle Day 2020 is observed on Saturday, May 23, 2020
Special Days in May
- When is National Wine Day: National Wine Dayhas always been observed annually on May 25
- When is International Jazz Day: International Jazz DayObserved 9 days before the first Monday of June. May 26
- When is National Blueberry Cheesecake Day: National Blueberry Cheesecake Dayhas always been observed annually on May 26
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Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have become common tools for communication. Many marketers use these tools to connect with customers and promote their products. Social media platforms help businesses and consumers by improving communication and sharing of information which leads to better buying decisions. An informed customer helps a company or business understand where they can improve or what needs to be fixed.
Feedback and Complaints
One of the main benefits of social media platforms is that it helps consumers find information about products and services they are interested in buying. It also allows consumers to share their opinions about their product experiences with friends or other users on social media websites. Businesses can use Social media platforms to reach out to customers who have bought their products and seek their feedback and complaints. This is a great way for businesses to improve their products or services and meet consumer demand. Social media platforms also provide businesses the opportunity to see how consumers feel about their company images, which allows them to make any changes they think are needed before their reputation gets out of hand.
Social media platforms help investors find more information about companies they are interested in investing in, before actually purchasing shares. The information provided by social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook allows investors to decide whether to invest or not. This is useful because many other forms of media often provide misleading information about companies; however social media sites give the opportunity for users to comment on the accuracy of the information shared. This helps the investor make an informed investment decision.
Social media platforms are very effective in providing relevant information about current events around the world. This allows users to stay up to date with what is currently happening in different countries, rather than sorting through various newspapers and radio broadcasts which have various slants on the news story being discussed. Social media websites also provide information about celebrities, which can be found on Twitter. This allows users to stay connected with celebrities and follow their personal lives without actually having to meet them.
Social media sites allow people all over the world to connect and interact with different cultures. Information regarding events happening in different countries can also be shared through social media websites like Facebook and Twitter making it easier for people to understand each other. Social media platforms also provide a chance for people from different parts of the world to share their personal stories, which helps to break down barriers and eliminate discrimination based on beliefs or where they live.
So, what are the benefits of social media platforms? They provide consumers with information to make better buying decisions; inform investors about companies they should invest in; allow people to learn more about events happening around the world and connect users with other cultures. Social media websites also provide information on celebrities allowing users to stay up to date on everything that happens in their personal lives. All in all, social media platforms provide a useful and efficient way for people to communicate and interact with each other, which leads to better opportunities and the chance to understand different cultures.
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Google Tone is a Chrome extension allowing users to share a link to anyone within hearing range with a single click. Google Tone embeds a button to the right of Chrome’s URL bar. On clicking the button, the extension emits a tone to share the link currently open in Chrome to anyone nearby, provided the other person also has Google Tone installed. The other user will get a notification with your Googlr profile name and a new tab will open on clicking on the notification.
The Google Research blog describes it as an experimental Chrome extension for instant sharing over audio.
“Tone provides an easy-to-understand broadcast mechanism that behaves like the human voice—it doesn’t pass through walls like radio or require pairing or addressing. The initial prototype used an efficient audio transmission scheme that sounded terrible, so we played it beyond the range of human hearing. However, because many laptop microphones and nearly all video conferencing systems are optimized for voice, it improved reliability considerably to also include a minimal DTMF-based audible codec. The combination is reliable for short distances in the majority of audio environments even at low volumes, and it even works over Hangouts,” the blogpost explains.
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When something is described as a “team sport” it means that success can only be achieved when everyone on the team works together, and toward the same goal.
How can this principle apply to corporate sustainability? The latest results of our 8th annual BSR/GlobeScan “State of Sustainable Business Survey” drive home the fact that, for companies to make greater progress in sustainability, all the players on the team (and the coach) need to work together much more effectively. The 2016 results clearly highlight the need for greater internal integration and engagement.
How well do companies think they are doing in integrating sustainability into the business?
Our latest survey includes responses from nearly 300 business leaders from 152 global companies, and among those global companies two-thirds (66%) say that sustainability is at least fairly well integrated into the core of their business (13% believe it is extremely well integrated). It is both encouraging and impressive, that such a proportion of companies consider sustainability an important part of the business, rather than simply an add on. However, this is only part of the story.
When asked about the ways that sustainability is integrated, more than seven in ten (72%) corporate sustainability professionals say that it is aligned and integrated with the company’s corporate purpose – again, an impressive finding. However, fewer professionals (51%) believe that sustainability is integrated into strategic planning. This is ultimately where sustainability integration is most needed, as this is when sustainability becomes designed into business success.
How can sustainability become more integrated into central strategic planning?
One way is for the CEO to prioritize it. Encouragingly, our survey shows that this seems to be an increasing phenomenon. In 2016, almost half (49%) of corporate sustainability professionals say that sustainability is at least a top five priority for their CEO (up 12 points from 2015). Impressive stuff and perhaps a testament to the higher profile afforded to sustainability by the Paris Climate Summit (COP21) and the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ultimately, though, its takes more than the team coach. It takes the entire team. As in past years, we find the sustainability function in many companies is still struggling to engage with a number of their counterparts across the enterprise. Although a majority of corporate professionals report high levels of engagement with Supply Chain/Procurement, Corporate Communications, Public Affairs and the CEOs Office, there is significantly lower levels of engagement with other core functions such as Investor Relations, Human Resources, R&D, Strategic Planning, and Finance.
When asked to identify the biggest barrier to internal engagement and collaboration between their teams and other functions, corporate sustainability professionals cited “competing internal priorities” far more than any other barrier (51%).
The challenge, therefore, is to move beyond these competing internal priorities to a place where all functions are aligned around a shared understanding of the strategic importance of sustainability. This, we suggest, will require the following:
- Strategy development: fostering internal alignment and prioritization through internal engagement and best practice review. This can empower all functions to align around a shared sustainability vision, goals and platform. From our experience, this is critical to foster deeper engagement and alignment with overall business strategy.
- Governance: clarifying internal roles, responsibilities and developing accountability mechanisms. The sustainability team often cannot own the entire sustainability agenda, but helping other functions understand the role they can and need to play will present greater opportunities to deliver value to the company.
- Activation, socialization and training: working function by function to integrate enterprise-wide priorities, purpose, risk management and ensure skills and capacity exist. This will drive greater internal engagement, alignment, education and collaboration.
- Measurement: benchmark and track understanding, expectations, awareness, and impacts to the business, both internally and externally. It is important for each function to clearly identify their stakeholders in order to understand how sustainability fits into their relationship. This will help quantify and measure progress, ROI and, provide insights to adjust strategy.
None of this is easy and it all takes time. But, it is essential. Sustainability teams need their colleagues in other functions to help them to understand their objectives and needs, and to identify how sustainability can support those ends. Equally, sustainability teams need to arm themselves with the data and best practice knowledge, to prove to their colleagues in other functions that sustainability is an essential element of their work.
But it is essential that it is a two way dialogue. Only by engaging with and understanding the challenges that functions face can the sustainability team, and the business as a whole, ensure that the way in which sustainability can be integrated ultimately delivers value and not simply extra obstacles.
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I have now completed construction, testing and build of my latest WSPR Transmitter. I call it the WSPR Mini!
It is only 41x56mm in size (1.6 x 2.2 inches) and has the GPS antenna built in on-board. RF output power is 20mW. I designed it to run from a singe LiPo and from USB power. That means you can power it directly from you computer or you can get a LiPo battery and make it a very small and portable transmitter. It should be quite suitable to fly with a balloon or Kite etc. I also wanted this one to be really low cost to be a good starting transmitter and I think you will agree that 39 dollar for a WSPR transmitter with built in GPS is quite affordable.
The Mini runs the same firmware as my other WSPR transmitters and use the same PC configuration software. It has place for one user built low pass filter on board.
The new thing with this model besides being small is that I have designed in a few power saving features to extend the operation time when running from a battery. Only the GPS power-save is implemented at the time I write this. The rest of them will be implemented in upcoming firmware.
The power saving modes are: 1 Shutting down the GPS when not in use.
2 Shutting down the Si5351 PLL when not in use.
3 Putting the micro controller to sleep when not in use.
4 Holding of transmissions and going to sleep when battery voltage is below 3V
To complement the Mini I have a daughter board with a 600mhLiPo battery and charge electronics that mates to the Mini and makes it truly portable.
Once mated together the USB port on the Mini becomes a charging port for the battery and and on/off switch on the LiPo board controls power to the Mini
The 600mAh battery should be good for 10 hours of continuous transmissions or about 30 to 40 hours of operation with pauses between transmissions blocks.
The LiPo board has two optional DC charging ports that accept 6V to 35V DC input for charging if it is used in a fixed setup or for example a solar cell is used to charge. Regardless if it is being charged from USB or external DC the charge current can be set by the user from 100mA to 1000mA. The protection and charge electronics will make sure it is not overcharged or over discharged.
Finally there is place to solder in a bigger battery in parallel if more capacity is needed.
I hope you will find the new product interesting. It should open up the field for experimentation with flyable transmitters and/or antennas. I'm quite eager to see if my small quad-copter can lift it with a 40m dipole, could be quite an interesting experiment. Finally, now that I have three different WSPR transmittters I have created a comparison and over-view of my WSPR transmitters on this page.
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So with the area of this knowledge we can now discuss Betterhelp Instagram Ad
Not everybody is totally persuaded that moving psychological healthcare online is the way forward. “For me, what works in therapy is when you satisfy somebody in person, in the very same room,” states London-based psychotherapist Sandra Tapie. “You learn more about not just what it’s like to talk with the individual, however how it feels to be in a space with them. Utilizing Skype is the next best thing: it’s ‘sufficient’, however it doesn’t create the closeness, the intimacy, that actually gets people to open and explore things.”
” I have actually performed some research study into Skype counselling,” says London-based psychotherapist Dr Aaron Balick, “and it’s not the ‘functional equivalent’ of conventional counselling; it’s simply not quite the very same thing. It’s actually essential that individuals who engage in it know that it’s a various experience from remaining in the room with somebody, speaking in person.”
” In terms of ease of access, it’s an excellent start and certainly much better than nothing. It’ll ideally lead them to eventually revealing up in the room.
In cases of mild depression, the NHS is now directing some clients towards online programs rather than face-to-face counselling, a phenomenon that worries Dr Balick.
If it’s rolled out simply to save money and there aren’t crucial concerns being asked about these services, that’s not good. Then, I’m constantly very sceptical of people who are either really extremely professional or very very against online mental health care.
Well, if the future of psychological healthcare is all about IMs, FaceTime and ‘OMG, which neuroses R U?’ quizzes, I decided I ‘d discover what that brave new world would be like. I registered for 4 really different online psychological health services– varying in cost from complimentary to , 100 a month– and ran my anxieties through them all, at the same time, for a week. Here’s what I discovered.
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What I’m doing here is evaluating my experience of using each psychological health service, rather than its efficiency – due to the fact that even the most wizard-like therapist isn’t going to ‘cure’ you in simply one week. Okay, cool – let’s mental health!
How does it work?
As seen on FB (by me, anyhow), US company is the business behemoth of the e-counselling game. They declare to have 500 licensed counsellors working for them, each with a minimum of 3 years of experience.
After filling out a questionnaire to establish what particular flavour of psychological you are, you’re coupled with a counsellor, who you can mercilessly switch for a various one at any time. (I got Dr. Laura Dabney, from Virginia). You then start an instantaneous messaged therapy session that both you and your counsellor can drop in and out of, and which could, in theory, go on and on till one of you ultimately died.
What does it cost?
You get a complimentary seven-day trial – similar to a free Netflix or Amazon Prime trial, except with way more concerns about what your childhood was like. After that, it costs from , 24.50 a week for limitless message-based counselling and one ‘totally free’ phone session with your counsellor per month. Yeah, I don’t get how it’s totally free either, however whatever.
How much is BetterHelp monthly?
If you discover the concept of baring your soul to a complete stranger a bit awks, filtering that through instant messaging might be practical. You won’t get the exact same connection just like in person counselling, however the semi-anonymity might make it easier to open if you’ve been drinking 2 bottles of rum and dancing around in your dead nan’s bridal gown every night.
She first established the scale of my anxiety, what activates it– social scenarios, satisfying people for the first time– and then dived headlong into my fractious childhood (separated parents, strained familial relationships, bullied in junior school). She was quite nosey tbh, but then that’s her task, isn’t it?
In general, the service is remarkably slick. The conversation can be a little stop-starty at times, but it was in fact a far smoother and more on-tap experience than I anticipated. I even got fast responses to messages over the weekend, which was unexpected.
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The fact you can modify messages prior to sending them indicates you’re not likely to blurt out something vulnerable and revealing in the heat of the minute. Profound minutes of realisation may be hard to come by if you can’t get an unwinded circulation going.
Who do I think it might it benefit?
Anyone with a low-end psychological health problem who’s cool with getting counselled in a really internet-y, 2016-y way. If you’re living under the blackest, bleakest cloud you can possibly imagine and require severe attention (and potentially some meds), probably isn’t for you Betterhelp Instagram Ad | <urn:uuid:2f52b5f3-d7b9-49f8-ad7a-0c742d555b8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pbcliteracy.org/betterhelp-instagram-ad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.933571 | 1,169 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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Let’s talk about point of view! I’m here to share some tips and materials to help you teach point of view to your students. I’ll walk you through some mini-lessons and share some free materials that you can use in your classroom. All of the printables used in this blog post can be accessed for free here or at the end of this post.
First things first:
The post will help students to:
- Understand general point of view
- Define and understand helpful terms associated with literary point of view
- Understand first- and third-person narration
- Identify and compare the type of narration an author uses
- Analyze how the type of narration affects the details that an author includes in a story
- Explain how a story or event is influenced or affected by the point of view and/or perspective
- Explain how a story or event might be different if told from a different point of view and/or perspective
I created this visual to help you understand where students should start and where students need to end in regards to learning about point of view. Think of each number as a step that students must master before moving up a level.
As you can see, I will start with introducing general point of view, but then I will take it a few steps further by analyzing how point of view and narration influences a story.
The text in this blog will read like scripted mini-lessons. Feel free to use any and all parts of this post in your classroom.
Point of view is sometimes a tricky topic for students. Before I introduce the topic in regards to stories, I like to have a conversation with students about point of view in general. A hook into the lesson if you will. I tell them that point of view is the position in which something is seen or observed. For example, stand a picture book up on a desk (or any other object that has two different sides). Have students stand on opposite sides of the book and describe what they see. Have a conversation about the fact that some students see the front cover and other students see the back cover. Each student has a different point of view. When you are viewing something, you are seeing it from your angle or point of view. You might see things the same way, or you might see them differently.
Once you have this conversation with students, hand out the printable titled “An Introduction to Point of View”. Have your students complete this activity. You may have students complete this on their own or together as a class. Once students have the chance to complete it, have a quick conversation about the printable. Make sure you drive home the point that the angle or position from which you are viewing something can change a lot.
Once we’ve talked about point of view in general, I like to introduce key terms and talk about why point of view is important in stories. You can have this anchor chart prepared or define these words together with your students. In addition, this anchor chart is also included as a free printable. Print out a copy for each student to use as a reference.
Next, I ask students: How does this apply to stories that you read?
I explain to students that when an author writes a story, they must choose someone to tell that story. The person who is telling the story is the narrator. When we read stories, we are hearing the story from the narrator’s point of view. Sometimes the narrator is a character in the story who personally sees and experiences the action and events. Sometimes the narrator is a character outside the story who is watching the action and events from the outside.
Authors typically use first-person narrators (a character in the story) or third-person narrators (a person outside the story) to narrate or tell the story. Note: I typically don’t spend a ton of time teaching second-person point of view at this point. I also make sure to spend some time here discussing the different types of third-person narrators since these are more abstract than first person.
Begin by working with your students to create an anchor chart highlighting the differences between first and third person narration.
For the purpose of this blog post, I created the anchor chart for you. However, make sure you make the anchor chart with students. Also, I included a free printable of the anchor chart that you can give to students.
Once students have an understanding of the types of narration, I now provide them with tools to help identify the type of narrator in a sentence. Then, we go further and practice these strategies with a short paragraph.
There are a few different strategies that students can use to identify the point of view in a story. The first strategy students can use is finding the clue words or pronouns within the story. You can refer back to the anchor chart to see the clue words for each type of narration.
First person: I, me, my, us, we, ours, etc.
Third person: he, she, they, them, him, her, names of characters, etc.
After I introduce the clue words, we discuss where to find them. In order to determine the correct place to search for clue words, I teach students how to tell the difference between narration (when the narrator is speaking) and dialogue (when characters are speaking). Students must understand that narration is the only place they can find clue words.
Tell students: When you’re trying to determine the type of narration used in a story, don’t look at the text inside quotations (dialogue). Only look at the narration (all the text outside of the quotations). To make this clear for students, I go through some examples as a class on the overhead. I color-code the dialogue and narration (see printable above) in each sentence.
After doing a few examples, you can grab this download for independent practice or practice together as a class.
Now that students have had a chance to identify the narration in sentences, give them the opportunity to practice using a longer texts.
If needed, refer back to your anchor chart to remind students about the definition of each type of narration and what types of clue words to look for. Also, with these short passages, when the passage is written in third person, the students will have to figure out which third person it is written in, so make sure students have a firm understanding. These texts can be accessed for free at the links at the beginning and end of this post.
Now that students understand point of view in a story and that authors typically use first or third person, we will go a bit deeper to analyze how the type of narration affects the details in the story.
Say to your students: Who the author chooses to narrate in the story can affect different elements in the story. It can change how the reader thinks and feels about characters or events in the story. As you read a book, think about whether the story is told by a character inside the story experiencing the events or an outside person looking in at the characters and events.
To break it down simply:
First-person: The narrator is a character in the story.
Effect on the text: The narrator is a character, so they can only tell the reader things that he or she sees, thinks, and feels. The narrator of the story is experiencing all of the events firsthand. Typically the narrator will say things like, “I think,” “I feel,” and “I see.”
Third-person limited: The narrator is not a character in the story. They know the thoughts and feelings of only one character in the story (often the main character).
Effect on the text: The narrator shares one character’s thoughts and feelings. This narrator can see all the events from the story, but only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. However, since this narrator sees all of the events from the story, he or she can also tell the reader things that the main character doesn’t know.
Third-person omniscient: The narrator is not a character in the story. They know the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story.
Effect on the text: The narrator shares all characters’ thoughts and feelings. This narrator can see the events from the story, and he or she knows the thoughts and feelings of every character. However, since this narrator sees all of the events from the story, he or she can also tell the reader things that the main character and/or other characters don’t know.
This is all highlighted in the posters below. You can hang these posters in your classroom and/or hand them out to students to use as a reference.
*Let’s go a bit deeper with this. You may share this information below with all of your students or save it for your higher students who are able to think a bit more abstractly.
Let’s talk about third-person omniscient vs. limited for a minute. An omniscient narrator is someone who can access the thoughts and beliefs of many characters without limitations and can explain past, present, and future events to the reader. An omniscient narrator can often interpret the motivations of characters or the importance of events directly to the reader. It also has a disadvantage in its loss of intimacy with the reader. This point of view makes a reader feel like they are watching a story versus imagining themselves as part of the action.
A limited third-person narrator is restricted to one particular character’s experiences and thoughts. It again allows a sense of closeness with the reader, but the author is still able to add details that the character may not otherwise know or realize. This allows the author to explain some things for the reader in more detail than is possible with a first-person narrator.
I also explain to students why an author might choose first-person narrators. Readers feel closer to first-person narrators. It feels like the main character is sharing a story directly with you. The narrator won’t tell how every character feels, so you get to figure that out on your own. Pay attention to how other characters react to the speaker.
Use the passages in each of the posters to talk about these differences with students. I also included teacher talking points to help you drive the points home.
At this point, now that students understand the different points of view, they need to understand what perspective is. Perspective is not the same as point of view.
Say to students: Remember, the narrator’s point of view is the vantage point of the narrator in relation to the events of the story (what the narrator can see and know about the events and characters in a story). For example, are they inside the story or outside the story. The narrator’s perspective, on the other hand, is their thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Perspective is different than point of view. Two people with the exact point of view might describe what they see in very different ways.
Point of view is what the lens sees. It focuses on WHO is telling the story. Perspective is the beliefs and attitudes that shape the lens. It focuses on HOW the story is told.
Create an anchor chart below with your students. For the purpose of this blog post, I created this anchor chart for you to use as a reference.
I also created this anchor chart as a printable so that you can print it and give to your students as a reference.
The picture that is used on the anchor chart can be viewed by clicking HERE. It is a great visual to use with students to introduce perspective.
Now that you’ve had the opportunity to introduce perspective to students, have them complete the comic strip activity. They have to draw a comic strip from the perspective of a swimmer seeing a great white shark and a scientist in a submarine seeing a great white shark.
Now that students have had the chance to understand and identify perspective, have them practice identifying it in short passages.
These passages are written about the same event but from two different perspectives.
Say to students: The way a story is told gives readers access to the inner story of different characters. Readers want to pay careful attention to whose internal thinking they get to hear because when a reader hears a character’s inner thinking, this means the reader is getting access to the perspective of that character.
Now that students have had the opportunity to understand, identify, and practice perspective, you can take it a step further by asking students: how would a story be different if told from a different point of view or perspective? You can do this with most well-written texts.
However, to begin with, have students complete a writing activity to understand how stories would be different if told from different perspectives or points of view. For this activity, I have students use the story starter to write a paragraph from the perspective of each person listed. Students have to think about how each person would describe the event differently based on his or her perspective.
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Blockchain, the technology of the future neutrally facilitated the financial transactions in cryptocurrencies by strictly eliminating the need for a governing authority or a management that was required to authorize the transactions based on trust and transparency. The Blockchain Network also follows the principle of absolute privacy and anonymity on the identification of the users associated in a transaction. Since the time of its inception, the Blockchain Technology has undergone research that has demonstrated some various kinds of methods to sort out the access control system of the conventional system. In recent years Blockchain has also shown optimum reliability in multiple sectors such as Smart Home, Healthcare, Banking, Information Storage Management, Security and etc. This work in terms is further concerned to the sector of Smart Healthcare, which has grown to a much affluence regarding the efficient technique of serving and dictating medical health care to the patients with the point of maintaining privacy of the patients\' data and also the process of laying out real time accurate and trusted data to the medical practitioners. But in the scenario of Smart Healthcare, the primary concern arises in the fact of Privacy and Security of the data of the patients due to the interoperability of multiple stakeholders in the process. Also, there has been a fact of determining accurate and proper data to the doctors if the concerned subject is out of reach from the in hand medical service. Therefore, this Concern of privacy and also mitigation of the accurate data has been very much managed in the work by regulating, a monitoring and sensing paradigm with accordance to the IOT and the Blockchain as a transaction and access management system and also an appropriate medium for laying out accurate and trusted data for serving with deliberate medical care and benefits to the patients across.
Software And Hardware
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Through continuous developments, the underwater IoT technology includes use of various wireless methods such as underwater sensors
Underwater applications is less heard of when it comes to the implementation of IoT. However, for undersea networking company WFS Technologies, the time for its technology to gain wider adoption might just be now. The UK-based company is more than a decade old and provides wireless networks that can communicate underwater and underground using low-frequency radio waves.
Technology for underwater deployment
Seatooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data through water and the water-air boundary using low-frequency radio waves from 1 Hz to 2.485 GHz. Using such low-frequency bands allows for the information to be transmitted wirelessly across the seabed at about 30-40 meters through the water.
Brendan Hyland, founder and CEO of WFS, says that of late, there has been a rise in interest from oil companies that want to set up monitoring systems on their ocean wellheads.
Sensors for underwater
WFS also makes sensors designed for the tough ocean environment. These sensors have enough computing power to run machine learning models. The models allow the system of sensors to measure existing conditions and adapt to the absence of an internet connection.
The battery life of these sensors can typically last up to 30 years. The ability to transmit data wirelessly and process it on the ocean platform is of huge benefit to an offshore drilling operation.
In water, the frequency radio waves matter. The wider the wave, the lower will be the frequency. That makes it travel better through water and opaque surfaces such as walls and rocks.
Also, there needs to be a certain distance between the waves and the ocean surface. If it’s transmitting closer to the surface, then there is a chance of the signal to cross-over and travel through the air within a 1- to 2-kilometer range.
In case of the unfeasibility of wireless transmission, using a wire instead as the medium for communication cannot be used as it is both expensive and labor-intensive to connect. Wires also corrode faster when placed in a salty environment.
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Date of Birth: July 23, 1906
Birth Name: Chandra Shekhar Tiwari
Place of Birth: Bhavra village in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh
Parents: Pandit Sita Ram Tiwari (father) and Jagrani Devi (mother)
Education: Sanskrit Pathashala in Varanasi
Association: Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) later renamed Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA)
Movement: Indian Freedom Struggle
Political Ideology: Liberalism; Socialism; Anarchism
Religious views: Hinduism
Passed Away: February 27, 1931
Memorial: Chandrashekhar Azad Memorial (Shahid Smarak), Orchha, Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh
Chandra Shekhar Azad was the quintessential firebrand revolutionary who fiercely craved independence for his country. A contemporary of Bhagat Singh, Azad never quite received the same levels of adoration for his deeds, yet his actions were no less heroic. His life-long goal was to create as much problem for the British Government as he could. He was the master of disguises and evaded capture by the British police multiple times. His famous proclamation, ‘Dushmano Ki Goliyon Ka Saamna Hum Karenge, /Azad Hi Rahe Hain, aur Azad hi Rahenge’, which translates into ‘I will face the bullets of the enemies, I have been free and I’ll forever be free’, is exemplary of his brand of revolution. He embraced martyrdom like an old friend and inspired a fierce sense of nationalism in the hearts of his contemporaries.
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Childhood & Early Life
Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Chandra Shekhar Tiwari, to Pandit Sita Ram Tiwari and Jagrani Devi on July 23, 1906 in Bhavra village in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh. Chandra Shekhar grew up with Bhils who inhabited the area and learnt wrestling, swimming along with archery. He was an ardent follower of Lord Hanuman from a young age. He practiced javelin throwing and developed an enviable physique. He received his early schooling in Bhavra. For higher studies he went to a Sanskrit Pathashala in Varanasi. As a child Chandrashekhar was wayward and preferred outdoors. As a student he was average but once in Benares, he came in contact with several young nationalists.
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The Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre took place in 1919 and the brutal deed of British oppression had reverberating effect on the Indian Nationalist movement. The blatant disregard exhibited by the British towards basic human rights and unnecessary use of violence on a group of unarmed and peaceful people, incited a burst of hatred from the Indians directed towards the British Raj. The nation was gripped by this anti-British euphoria and Chandra Shekhar was part of a group of young revolutionaries who dedicated their lives towards a single goal – securing freedom for his beloved motherland by driving the British away from India.
Early Days: Chandrashekhar Tiwari to Chandra Shekhar Azad
The first wave of nationalist sentiments was awakened by the Non-cooperation movement declared by Gandhiji during 1920-1921. Chandra Shekhar rode this wave when he was a mere teen and participated in the various organised protests with much gusto. 16-year-old Chandra Shekhar was arrested in one of these demonstrations. When asked his name, residence and that of his father, he replied to the authorities, that his name was ‘Azad’ (free), his father’s name ‘Swatantrata’ (Freedom) and his residence as the prison cell. He was sentenced to receive 15 whiplashes as punishment. He bore those with ample nonchalance and came to be revered as Chandra Shekhar Azad from then on.
Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) & Azad
The announcement to suspend the non-cooperation movement came as a blow to the nascent Indian Nationalist Sentiments. Azad was much agitated in its aftermath and decided that a fully aggressive course of action was more suitable for his desired outcome. He met Ram Prasad Bismil, the founder of Hindustan Republican Association through Pranavesh Chatterji. He joined the HRA and concentrated his efforts on collecting funds for the association. He planned and executed daring attempts to rob government treasury to raise funds in order to further their revolutionary activities.
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Ram Prasad Bismil conceived the idea of looting a train carrying treasury money to fund acquiring of weapons for revolutionary activities. Bismil had noticed several security loopholes in trains carrying treasury money and a suitable plan was devised. They targeted the No. 8 Down train travelling from Shahjahanpur to Lucknow and intercepted it at Kakori. They stopped the train by pulling the chain, overpowered the guard and took 8000 rupees from the guard cabin. In the ensuing gunfight between the armed guards and the revolutionaries, one passenger died. The government declared this as murder and launched an intense manhunt to round up the involved revolutionaries. Azad evaded arrest and carried on revolutionary activities from Jhansi.
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Azad took a long detour and finally reached Kanpur where the headquarters of the HRA was based. There he met other firebrands like Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. Pumped with renewed enthusiasm, he reorganised the HRA and renamed it as Hindustan Socialist Republican Association or HSRA together with Bhagat Singh. On October 30, 1928, Lala Lajpat Rai led a peaceful protest against the Simon Commission at Lahore. Police Superintendent James Scott ordered lathi strike to thwart the advancement of the march. Lalaji was severely injured in the process and died on November 17, 1928 as a result of the wounds. Azad and his peers held the police superintendent responsible for Lala’s death and they vowed to extract revenge. Together with Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru, he plotted the assassination of Scott. On December 17, 1928, the plan was executed but a case of mistaken identity led to the killing of John P. Saunders, an Assistant Superintendent of Police. The HSRA claimed responsibility for the event the next day and the involved people shot to the top of the British’s most wanted list. Bhagat Singh was arrested following his demonstration in the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi on April 8, 1929. When the HSRA bomb factories in Lahore and Saharanpur were busted, some of the members turned approver for the state. As a result around 21 members were arrested including Rajguru and Sukhdev. Azad along with 29 others were charged in the Lahore Conspiracy Case Trial, but he was among the few who the British authorities were unable to capture.
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Azad’s impact on the British Raj law enforcement faction was evident from how much effort they put to capture him, dead or alive. They even announced a reward of Rs. 30,000 on his head. The huge amount of money led to vital information on the whereabouts of Azad. On February 27, 1931 Chandrashekhar Azad was meeting with friends at Alfred Park, Allahabad. A pre-informed police surrounded the park and asked Chandrashekhar Azad to surrender. Azad fought valiantly to allow his friends safe passage and killed three policemen. Though his shooting skills were immensely sharp, he started receding and was badly injured. After nearly exhausting his ammunition and foreseeing no means of escape, he shot himself in the head with his last bullet. He upheld his vow never to be captured by the British.
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Chandra Shekhar Azad’s true legacy lies in his indomitable urge to remain free forever. His name instantly brings into fore, a one man army who shook the foundations of the British Raj. Azad’s activities inspired awe from his contemporaries and the future generation, who whole-heartedly dedicated their lives to the freedom struggle. At the same time, he became a real problem for the British authorities. What Azad gifted to his countrymen is a fierce longing to be free of the oppressive shackles that British Imperialism was imposing. A grand departure from the non-violent route that Gandhi and the Congress adopted to attain self-rule, Azad’s way of violent usurping freedom set the patriotic sentiments of Indians on fire. He is still remembered as one of the bravest and awe-inspiring figures of Indian armed revolution. The tales of his heroic escape evading capture is the stuff of legends. He dreamt of a free India based on socialist ideals and committed himself towards realizing his dream. His contributions did not lead to immediate freedom, but his grand sacrifice intensified the fire in Indian revolutionaries to fight the British rule even more fiercely.
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In Popular Culture
After independence, to commemorate the bravery of Chandrashekhar Azad, Alfred Park in Allahabad was renamed Chandrashekhar Azad Park.
Multiple patriotic films have depicted Azad’s character. In the 2002 Ajay Devgan starrer biopic of Bhagat Singh, Azad’s character was portrayed by Akhilendra Mishra. The patriotism of Azad, Rajguru, Pandit Ram Prasad Basil and Ashfaqula Khan was depicted in Rang De Basanti, a 2006 Bollywood film where Amir Khan portrayed the character of Chandra Shekhar Azad. | <urn:uuid:a37e0735-5f43-4ccd-a994-79486d900f2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://culturalindia.net/leaders/chandrasekhar-azad.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.972623 | 2,114 | 2.578125 | 3 |
In today’s digital world, it’s becoming more and more difficult to help kids develop healthy habits with technology. While Freedom was designed as a personal productivity tool, it can also be used to help set boundaries for kids, and to promote digital wellness.
We’ve collected some of our favorite resources on digital parenting to help parents and caregivers get started using Freedom for their families.
Get Started with Freedom for Families
Freedom for Families Setup Guide
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How To Teach Our Kids Healthy Tech Habits
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Empowering Teens to Find Screen Time Balance
For parents of teens, the task of digital parenting shifts from one of controlling and restricting screen time to guiding, advising, supporting, and protecting.
The Miley Family: Finding Screen/Life Balance in Silicon Valley
The Mileys are a family of three, based at the very epicenter of all things tech – Silicon Valley. Completely immersed and surrounded by tech, we learned how they use Freedom to create healthy boundaries with tech and digital distraction.
How Students Are Creating Their Own Solutions for Tech-Life Balance
We sat down with Susan Reynolds, founder of LookUp, to learn about the challenges facing today’s students and the tools and strategies they are using to improve their relationship with tech.
Julia Storm: Helping Families Raise Kids in the Digital Age
Julia Storm is the founder of ReConnect, an organization dedicated to providing parents with the skills and information they need to prepare their kids for life in the Digital Age. She shared her tips on how families can enjoy a healthier relationship with technology
How to Block Websites That Are Distracting, Harmful, and Even Dangerous
There are many different reasons why you might want to know how to block websites. Here’s exactly how to block websites on Windows, Mac, Chrome, iOS devices, and Android.
Study Habits & Tools for Teens
To set your teenager up for success you can help them develop study skills. They also need to be able to manage distractions, so you can provide certain tools for that.
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A group of aggrieved teachers in the Ho Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) District, have expressed misgivings over the teacher licensure examination, saying it lacks transparency and an affront to the teaching profession.
The Ho GNAT District is made up of teachers from Ho municipality, Agotime-Ziope, Adaklu and Ho West districts.
The teachers, numbering at about 70 said that the licensure examination should rather be part of the final examinations of trainee teachers, before completing college.
A spokesman of the group, which also included some members of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Mr Mathias Tulasi, Assistant Director 2 of the Ghana Education Service, said at a press conference in Ho, on Thursday, that recent publication of the licensure examination result called for a broader reflection of the issue.
He referred to the result of teachers’ promotional examination written in February, this year, and sought to know why some teachers, who were informed that they had passed the examination and asked to submit the documents required for their promotion, were later told that they had failed.
Mr Tulasi said that it was clear that “it is just a quota system, which was used in passing those who sat for the examination. We are calling on the leadership of GNAT, as a matter of urgency to meet the Ministry of Education and arrange for remarking of those examination scripts.”
He said that members of the group were worried over the long silence by the national leadership of GNAT over the matter.
Mr Tulasi said the recent four per cent salary increment in teachers’ salaries was an insult, adding that seven per cent increment expected next year would be rejected by the group.
“Government must go back to the negotiating table to increase it to nothing less than 12 per cent; government cannot use COVID-19 as an excuse when people are using COVID-19 to enrich themselves,” he said.
Mr Tulasi complained that the Standard-Based Curriculum, which was introduced almost three years ago was still faced with inadequate teaching and learning problems.
“There is a gap in the implementation of Standard-Based Curriculum because Junior High Schools are not implementing as planned, while the text books supplied to the schools have been withdrawn,” he revealed.
Mr Tulasi explained that teachers were committed to seeing students become great men and women for the nation; and urged government to provide the necessary materials to promote teaching and learning.
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In our recent blog Job Interviews – It’s all in the preparation we spoke about the importance of preparing for different interview questions and in particular for Competency Based Questions.
Now whilst we’re not massive fans of these types of questions (because they largely test your memory rather than your ability and also favour people who are good at selling themselves), many companies still like to use them. It is therefore really important to prepare answers to some of the most common ones, especially if your mind goes blank when put on the spot.
Typical questions include:
Tell me about a time when you have:
-dealt with conflict?
-gone above and beyond?
-thought outside the box to resolve a problem?
-brought together a number of people to work as a team?
-had conflicting priorities – how did you deal with them?
-improved a system or process?
It’s useful to remember the STAR approach when answering such questions:
- Situation (describe the situation you were in)
- Task (explain the task given to you)
- Action (explain what you actually did)
- Result (describe what happened as a result of your actions)
The following example illustrates a possible answer to the question:
“Give me an example of when you have gone above and beyond what was asked of you?”
As a first year audit assistant I was asked to do a stock take on a Saturday at one of our clients manufacturing depots (Situation).
I was asked to do spot checks on the client’s stock counting and pay particular attention to some items that were in the course of being constructed (Task).
I noticed that the paperwork indicated two assets that were in the course of being constructed but could only see one item in the depot. I queried with the site manager where the other item was and upon further investigation it turned out that only one asset had been constructed and the other hadn’t even been started. I took photos of the one that had been started and made notes about how complete the site manager thought it was (Action).
I didn’t think that I had done anything remarkable with my actions, but it turns out that this was a material and contentious item within the client’s accounts and so my thoroughness (rather than just noting down there was only 1 item instead of 2) resulted in the client’s statutory accounts being amended to reflect the correct position. This potentially prevented any reputational damage to the firm had the accounts ever been contested. In addition the manager rewarded me with a special recognition form, which contributed to my rating as “outstanding” at the end of the year. (Result).
By thinking about how you can answer such questions you can also drop in a few additional pieces of information that may not naturally come up in conversation. For example, in the above answer the candidate was able to mention that they had been rated as outstanding in their first year and also showed an appreciation of the concept of materiality and reputational risk to the firm.
We recommend to our candidates to prepare for a handful of questions such as these and if you’re worried about not being able to remember them it’s good to practice with a friend or family member beforehand. There are no right or wrong answers but having thought about what you’re going to say should greatly enhance your chances of success on the big day.
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Daniel Webster thunders that the introduction of conscription would be a violation of the constitution, an affront to individual liberty, and an act of unrivaled despotism (1814)
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) gave a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on December 9, 1814 in opposition to President Madison’s proposal for compulsory military service in which he argued that Madison’s plan to conscript individuals into the army was "an abominable doctrine (which) has no foundation in the Constitution"
Is this, sir, consistent with the character of a free government? Is this civil liberty? Is this the real character of our Constitution? No sir, indeed it is not. The Constitution is libelled, foully libelled. The people of this country have not established for themselves such a fabric of despotism. They have not purchased at a vast expense of their own treasure and their own blood a Magna Charta to be slaves. Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it? Under what concealment has this power lain hidden which now for the first time comes forth, with a tremendous and baleful aspect, to trample down and destroy the dearest rights of personal liberty? Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life, and even life itself, not when the safety of their country and its liberties may demand the sacrifice, but whenever the purposes of an ambitious and mischievous government may require it? Sir, I almost disdain to go to quotations and references to prove that such an abominable doctrine has no foundation in the Constitution of the country.
Now and again we come across a speech which prompts us to imagine being in the audience when it was delivered. Daniel Webster had a reputation for public speaking and this speech is one which gained him that deserved reputation. The last paragraph of this quotation is one we would have very much liked to have heard: “It is their task to raise arbitrary powers, by construction, out of a plain written charter of National Liberty. It is their pleasing duty to free us of the delusion, which we have fondly cherished, that we are the subjects of a mild, free, and limited government, and to demonstrate, by a regular chain of premises and conclusions, that government possesses over us a power more tyrannical, more arbitrary, more dangerous, more allied to blood and murder, more full of every form of mischief, more productive of every sort and degree of misery than has been exercised by any civilized government, with a single exception, in modern times.” It is dripping with sarcasm which would have upset the supporters of the bill to a great degree. One wonders what government he is referring to with the phrase “single exception”? Perhaps France under Napoleon, or Britain when it was fighting the American revolutionary wars. | <urn:uuid:d5caf22d-0843-44aa-b7b9-25a510cd390f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/daniel-webster-thunders-that-the-introduction-of-conscription-would-be-a-violation-of-the-constitution-an-affront-to-individual-liberty-and-an-act-of-unrivaled-despotism-1814 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967929 | 637 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Psychological Science Professors Candice Odgers, left, and Julian Thayer have made Clarivate’s 2021 “Highly Cited Researchers” list.
Candice Odgers, professor of psychological science, and Julian Thayer, distinguished professor of psychological science, have made Clarivate’s 2021“Highly Cited Researchers” list.
Each year, Clarivate, a company that provides scientific analytics, identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. In 2021, fewer than 6,700, or about 0.1%, of the world's researchers, in 21 research fields and across multiple fields, have earned the exclusive distinction. Odgers and Thayer are among those recognized for exceptional research influence, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.
Odgers’ research focuses on how social inequalities and early adversity influence children’s future health and well-being, with an emphasis on how new technologies, including mobile phones and web-based tools, can be used to understand and improve the lives of young people.
Thayer specializes in health psychology, psychopathology, health disparities, heart rate variability, emotions, stress and neuroimaging research. | <urn:uuid:de5758ca-6e2f-45d1-974d-78b62fb48495> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://socialecology.uci.edu/news/odgers-and-thayer-named-highly-cited-researchers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.915269 | 285 | 1.703125 | 2 |
THEATER TECHNOLOGY 0161
Costume Design and Technology Specialization
Associate in Science Degree
The Costume Design and Technology Associate in Science degree program curriculum at Florida School of the Arts begins with an examination of the fundamental techniques of costume design through a series of historical and problem-oriented projects. Emphasis is placed on imagination and problem-solving in costume rendering and presentation of work. Students in the costume design program also have the unique opportunity to design and construct costumes for the many school productions throughout the year. Upon completion of the costume program, a student is prepared for employment as a costume/wardrobe professional or as a costume technician in a professional shop. Students may also choose to continue their education in costume design at the university level. | <urn:uuid:f8fae9f2-23d8-4cc9-98a5-17f96d5b86a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://floarts.org/costume-design-technology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947949 | 151 | 2.125 | 2 |
Breaking Bread is a self-exploration of data storytelling and the ways in which I choose to represent different types of information. Starting with a research question of how sharing food connects people, I gathered data surrounding the topic of sharing food. Through a survey of 20 individuals, data was collected from each person to create a snapshot of the last meal they had with another person or persons. These “snapshots” are presented in a collection of menus, creating a portrait for each person’s meal.
An accompanying digital experience simplifies these portraits into a plate to represent each meal. The data is then grouped in different ways through the lens of the relationships people had with their meal guests. Specifically, each of these meals is represented by a circle, color-coded by the relationship between the respondent and their meal guest. These 20 circles are then grouped or manipulated in different ways to illustrate the different attributes of each respondent's meal.
The resulting data visualizations are presented in sequence, with interactivity incorporated to highlight interesting or significant findings in the data, to bring another level of engagement for viewers. Through these different methods of visualizing data, I aim to stretch my understanding of what data visualization and information design can be. | <urn:uuid:e7ffaeb7-4e55-4aee-949f-8fb3c6cc3b40> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sds.parsons.edu/jamie-soohoo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948276 | 247 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Here at Michigan Tech, new media has taken over. With our annual Winter Carnival just around the corner, the festival's queen candidates are taking a different approach to campaigning: Though most still create posters, all queen candidates have Facebook groups created in their interest where their fellow classmates can join.
How has social media affected college students? It has become ingrained in our current lives and our futures. Facebook especially has taken my school by storm – one of the girls in my classes told everyone she has one class that is taught entirely on Facebook and those enrolled communicate via the site’s messenger feature. It’s incredible to think that in our age of technology, we do not even have to leave our beds in order to attend college – the possibilities for future developments in this technology are unbelievable!
Social media isn’t just for students anymore, either. Professors have also become more comfortable adding students as friends on Facebook and there seems to be a closer unity through utilizing Facebook as a means of communication. Even after classes have ended, professors and students can continue to interact, leaving the door open for future recommendations and references. Most companies have Twitter or Facebook accounts, too, and you will have to know how to not only work them but be able to analyze the data they produce to have an edge over other applicants. (I opened a Twitter account just because most job descriptions I read required knowledge of Facebook and Twitter.)
Even more popular social media will emerge in the future, furthering the technological shift. Twenty years from now, no one will forget the Facebook Era but what social media trends and platforms do you think are on the horizon?
In addition to being a Scholarships.com virtual intern, Michigan Tech student Kayla Herrera is a media coordinator for the Michigan Tech Youth Programs and is a writer for The Daily News in Iron Mountain, Mich., Examiner.com and WHOA Magazine. She love a tantalizing, action-packed video game and can't get enough of horror movies (Stephen King's books always have her in their grip, though she prefers the old over the new). Writing is what she has always done, and that is what she is here to do.
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Straight lines are important geometric features for aerial image understanding tasks like man-made object detection. As image scene becomes more complex, traditional method like Hough Transform may produce false detections and cannot work efficiently. In this paper, we propose a new multi-scale line detection approach that can efficiently detect semantic lines in aerial image with complex scene. Firstly, a method called "Trichotomy Line Extraction" detects reliable line segments locally. Then multi-scale image system is constructed by wavelet decomposition, from which global information is obtained to detect semantic lines. Experimental results show that proposed method can extract accurate linear features on complex scene aerial images in a robust and efficient way. | <urn:uuid:d83d8679-f043-4e76-baca-5bce40c7d978> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://waseda.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/a-new-multiscale-line-detection-approach-for-aerial-image-with-co | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942183 | 136 | 2.28125 | 2 |
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Arboricultural Ground Worker
Who is this for?
This course is for those who support those undertaking aerial tree works. This course is designed for the “groundsman” or the person on the ground who will be assisting the aerial operator carry out their work.
1 days Training with an additional 1 day City & Guilds NPTC Assessment
max. 6 per course
This is normally completed at our site locally to Builth Wells.
If you have enough people for a full course, we are able to run this course on your site (subject to a pre-course visit).
City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate of Competence in Arboricultural Ground Worker
mwmac Training Certificate & City & Guilds NPTC Qualification Certificate
- Hazards, risks, controls, emergency planning
- Legislation, industry good practice, roles and responsibilities
- Site zoning; work zone, drop zone, exclusion zone, etc.
- Understanding the importance of providing Ground Based support to Aerial Operators
- Understanding and Undertaking Ground worker tasks, such as preparation of equipment (fueling etc), setting up ladders, passing equipment to and retrieving equipment from an aerial operator within the drop zone, setting up and using of ground based lowering devices, removing arisings from the drop zone and disposal of waste.
Course Information Sheet:
Course Information Sheet – Arboricultural Ground Worker
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The Snowy Owl is to be honest my favourite animal it obviously a bird a large bird of prey it’s a carnivore snatching small birds and rodents it flaps his/her wings silently unable to be heard from its prey.
Did You Know?
Any owl can do turn its
Head three sixty (360)
The yellow-eyed, black billed white bird is easily recognizable. It is 53-65 cm (20-26 inches) long with a 125-150 cm (50-60 in) wingspan. Also, these birds can weigh anywhere from 1.8-3 kg (3.5-6.6 lbs). The adult male is virtually pure white, but females and young birds have some dark scalloping; the young are heavily barred, and dark spotting may even be predominate. Its thick plumage, heavily-feathered feet, and coloration render the Snowy Owl well adapted for life north of the Arctic Circle.
There eye sight is unique as for the only bird that can see heat they eat there prey whole if its small enough ignoring all bones feathers for when it its finished digesting all the flesh it throws up the bones hair and feathers.
A full grown owl has few predators making it an ideal hunter but when young they depend on its parent to defend them from artic fox’s and other owls. | <urn:uuid:4632f4c0-5def-4d0f-8625-055c9d385a36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.animal-forum.co.uk/snowy-owl.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.934203 | 281 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Our Start-up of the Week is Modmo, an urban mobility start-up building personal electric bicycles, with a focus on creating transport that could replace cars.
Modmo is the brainchild of 23-year-old Jack O’Sullivan, an Irish entrepreneur living in Vietnam. While O’Sullivan is still relatively young, however, this isn’t his first business.
“As a 13-year-old, I was addicted to downhill mountain biking, a very expensive sport, and I needed a way to fund it,” he told Siliconrepublic.com.
“I began importing and selling refurbished iPhones and grew that revenue to around €20,000 per month. After a year or two of that, I learned that it wasn’t scalable as barriers to entry were too low.”
Sometime after this, O’Sullivan said he was “kindly asked to leave secondary school for lack of attendance”. He took it upon himself to continuing studying at a local library, while simultaneously working, until he completed the Leaving Certificate and got accepted into UCD to study business.
“It was a fantastic course but my earlier experience put me way ahead of the class. Combined with my very short attention span, I dropped out within four months,” he said.
The move to Vietnam
After this experience, O’Sullivan got involved in the world of entrepreneurship again and started a Dublin-based business, Vital Fixies, focused on selling fixed-gear bikes. “I wanted to buy a fixie but my local bike shop was selling them for more than €500, which I thought was way too expensive,” he said.
“So I found a supplier, did some maths and pitched the idea to my big brother and dad who agreed to invest to cover the initial cost of 165 bikes. We started selling at €250 and quickly grew our market share.”
“I thought I could create the best bike in the world,” O’Sullivan added, but he soon found it difficult to do this “without much money” while living in Ireland.
He booked a short trip to Shenzhen in China to meet engineers and suppliers, shortly before he was directed to “an amazing factory in Vietnam”, so he packed his bags and has lived there since. Now, the Dubliner plans to create a global business with Modmo.
“After using a bicycle as my primary mode of transport for many years, I identified three core limitations and set out to solve them,” O’Sullivan explained.
“People are lazy and certainly don’t want to arrive at their destination tired or sweaty. If you’re travelling by bicycle, you can’t carry anything with you unless it’s in a bag on your back. Then, bicycle theft (or the fear of it) is a big issue in Europe.”
He said that he gained the last bit of insight from Vital Fixies, who were often buying a second bike because they were too afraid to leave their more expensive bikes locked in the city centre.
To deal with all these concerns, Modmo has created a modular electric bicycle. “A quick-release mount on the front and rear of the bicycle allows you to easily add or remove a range of accessories in seconds, without any tools. These accessories include seats for children, surfboard racks, baskets, trailers, and temperature-controlled food boxes for delivering food.”
With this design, the company hopes to eliminate many people’s need for a car. The bike is electric with a battery that lasts up to 100km built into the frame tubes, making it invisible from the outside.
There’s also a touchscreen built into the handlebars that runs Android and displays turn-by-turn navigation so you can see Google Maps, with plans for other apps that Modmo is currently working on.
Finally, there’s a GPS sensor hidden inside the frame, allowing owners to track bikes in the event of theft. This sensor also lets cyclists see their activity data through bike’s screen. According to O’Sullivan, there’s plenty more technology in the pipeline and the company is also working on a bike that he hopes could replace vans for urban deliveries.
“Elon Musk believes that we need to move roads underground, but I think we need to shift towards personal modes of transport. If everyone was using our e-bikes for urban transport and companies began using our cargo bikes for transport and delivery, there would be a drastic reduction in congestion and vehicle-emitted pollution.”
So, what next?
While Modmo is still prelaunch, the start-up had a soft launch at EuroBike 2019, where the product was met with interest, according to O’Sullivan, who added that there’s a partnership with another bike brand in the works for 2020.
The start-up was recently involved with a Vietnamese accelerator programme, which made a small investment into the company. The aim is to eventually raise €400,000 in angel investment before the new year to pay for the final tooling and custom parts needed to mass produce a Modmo bike.
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The commercial onion frying machine (onion ring frying machine) is a commercial deep frying machine. This machine is widely used for frying onion rings, potato chips, pork skin, and other fried snacks. Fryers are welcomed by customers because of their wide range of applications, easy operation, and large frying output. At present, Taizy’s onion frying machine has been exported to Pakistan, India, Greece, South Africa, and many other countries and regions. Commercial onion fryers can not only be used alone, it can also be combined with an onion peeler, battering machine, and other machines to form a large production line.
Three kinds of onion frying machine introduction
Taizy mainly provides three types of onion ring frying machines. One is a square fryer, one is a circular batch fryer, and the other is a continuous fryer.
Square onion fryer
The square onion ring fryer is suitable for small onion frying traders. This machine’s output range is 50kg/h~200kg/h. Especially, the output of a frying frame is 50kg/h. Put the onion rings in the frying frame for deep frying. After frying, it can be easily lifted up the frying frame.
Round batch onion frying machine
Similar to the square fryer, the round onion ring fryer also fries a batch of onion rings. After one batch of onion rings has been fried, place another batch of onion rings for frying. The machine can realize the functions of automatic loading and unloading.
Continuous onion ring fryer
The first two types of frying machines are semi-automatic frying machines, which require labor to operate during the frying process. The continuous onion ring frying machine can realize continuous and uninterrupted frying of onion rings. The onion frying machine’s conveyor belt conveys the onion rings for frying and discharging. This machine can not only realize automatic frying but also has many functions such as scraping residue, automatic lifting, oil circulation, and so on.
Industrial onion frying machine operation video
Commercial onion fryer machine’s advantages
- Although the three types of onion frying machines have different outputs, their functions are roughly the same. And the onion ring fryer is made of 304 stainless steel. When using the fryer, it can ensure the sanitation and environmental sanitation of fried products.
- The continuous onion fryer also has a lifting system to facilitate cleaning the bottom of the fryer. In addition, the dregs scraping system of the fryer ensures cleanliness and prevents fires due to the accumulation of frying waste.
- Onion ring frying machines can customize the length and width of the machine according to the production needs of customers. Onion ring frying machines are widely used in restaurants, street vendors, canteens, food production plants, and other customer needs.
- The onion frying machine’s electricity, gas, and other heating methods provide heating solutions for customers in different regions. Customers can choose a cheaper heating method according to the local heating situation.
- The electric fryer adopts the method of immersing the heating tube in heating oil. It makes the onion rings deep-fried evenly, with good color, and ensures the quality of the onion rings. And the heating tube adopts a seamless heating tube, which reduces the occurrence of accidents.
Several questions about fried onions
- Why do I need to soak the onions before frying the onion rings?
Onions have a pungent taste, so you need to soak them in cold water. This can remove the spicy flavor of onions and make the onion rings softer.
- How long does it take to fry onion rings?
This mainly depends on the frying temperature you set on the onion frying machine. For a general frying temperature of 160~180℃, it takes 2~3 minutes.
- How to keep fried onion rings crispy?
There is only a thin layer of onion rings. In order to ensure the taste of fried onion rings, it is usually necessary to coat the onion rings with a layer of batter. When coating the batter, you can first coat the outer layer of the onion rings with a thin layer of starch. Then wrap a layer of batter, which can increase the friction and make the batter better adhere to the onion rings. Then coat it with breadcrumbs. In this way, you can obtain a crispy onion ring.
- How to make the batter hang on the onion rings?
The best way is to remove the inner membrane from the onion after cutting the onion. Because the Nebo of onions is relatively smooth. If it is not removed, the batter is not easy to hang on the onion rings. | <urn:uuid:c995456a-d3da-4682-ac90-2848dd1a56dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fryingline.com/onion-ring-fryer-machine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.902819 | 961 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Today marine litter (ML) is recognized as a major concern for the future of the sea. ML includes all anthropogenic material that has entered the marine environment by intentional or unintentional actions. Types of ML vary in their chemical composition and physical characteristics. Based on these characteristics and the size of the litter fragments, ML may accumulate in different abiotic and biotic matrices: sea surface, water column, shoreline, sea-floor, sea ice and biota.
Although it is often assumed that most ML is floating, covering wide areas and ending up on the shoreline, most eventually ends up on the sea-floor. Around 90% of ML found on the coastline comes from local sources. This is especially true for a semi-enclosed sea such as the Adriatic.
The ‘marGnet’ project focuses on ML from sea-based sources on the sea-floor and generated by the fisheries and aquaculture activities. This includes not only abandoned, lost and otherwise discarded fishing gears (ALDFG), but also all the litter that is generated by fishing and sea food product management, including ropes, mooring points, degraded nets and their components. In Europe, they account up to 27% of all ML (European Commission).
The ‘marGnet’ project proposes an holistic approach, combining actions to tackle the phenomenon of ML at all phases, from reduction and prevention, through the monitoring and quantification and the removal and recycling. Thereby, merging together the whole production chain of ML management – from scientific research to the development of new technological solutions for recycling.
Objectives of the ‘marGnet project are:
To set up and test multi-level solutions to monitor, map, prevent, remove and recycle ML from sea-based sources present on the sea-floor.
General aims of the ‘marGnet’ project are:
– Monitoring the presence of ML from sea-based sources especially from fisheries and aquaculture activities through combined multi-sensor high resolution acoustic mapping, data analysis, underwater surveys;
– Predicting accumulation hotspots of ML on the sea-floor, especially from fisheries and aquaculture activities, on a wide scale through the development of a predictive model, able to stimulate the dispersion of sinking ML;
– Promotion of the sustainable removal of marine litter from the sea-floor by capitalising and strengthening the removal protocols based on previous initiatives (the GHOST project);
– Improvement of the environmental sustainability and efficiency of the recycling process of ML by engineering a prototype that exploits low temperature pyrolysis method to transform the ML into an energy source with reasonable costs;
– Reduce the quantity of ML from fisheries and aquaculture activities by demonstrating the prototype in fishing port areas highlighting its usability, convenience and promoting an awareness and a change in the behaviour of fishermen towards sustainable practices;
– Improvement of the governance framework for the management of ML by providing decision supporting tools and best practise to policy makers.
To achieve the objectives, the ‘marGnet’ project works on two pilot sites located in the Northern Adriatic – the Venice Lagoon in Italy, and the Cres-Lošinj Archipelago in Croatia. These locations were chosen as they are both listed as Sites of Community Importance (SCIs) within the EU Natura 2000 Network. Additionally, these sites have two different types of sea-floor, so a range of field activities will be performed in both sandy and rocky bottoms, as well as in coastal and lagoon areas. Thus will improve the robustness and the replicability of the project.
Costs of the project action – 611.792 € / EU contribution granted – 488.575 € (80%)
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Host Analysis for 18.104.22.168:
IP address 22.214.171.124 is located within an IP block ranging from 126.96.36.199 to 188.8.131.52 with CIDR 184.108.40.206/24 and netmask 255.255.255.0. According to a DNS lookup, the host name attributable to this IP is cwhtor5.canadianwebhosting.com. Other information about this IP block suggests that users of 220.127.116.11 are in the vicinity of Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, located at 49.286° latitude, -123.116° longitude (indicated on the map to the right), and are users of an ISP called iDigital Internet Inc.. The ZIP code from this locale is V6C 1E1, and the time zone is America/Vancouver.
We have further analyzed this IP address and found that several domain names are currently mapped to it, such as 22qfamilies.org, amberdawnwrites.com, cftn.ca, checkyourhead.org, and cnooccanada.com, among others. This suggests that the IP address is being used by a public server (rather than an end user or a private server) to serve web pages or other app content. | <urn:uuid:269246c3-06e2-491e-9e9b-3b3fb48c9576> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.plotip.com/ip/64.34.70.141 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937227 | 279 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Scientist invented technology to determine oil spill contamination
A renowned scientist who invented underwater sensors and robots to determine the extent of oil-spill contamination and detect submarines has joined the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.
David Fries, a Tampa-based scientist, will join the FIHMC as a research scientist, working out of the organization's Pensacola and Ocala locations until the summer, when he will relocate to Pensacola.
"David Fries is a true innovator in undersea technologies,'' said Ken Ford, IHMC director. "We are thrilled to have him."
Fries holds 35 patents. His underwater sensors and robots can also help take fish counts.
"Knowing accurately how much is there is important for knowing how long to keep a season open,'' Fries said. "The open question is does that really help a population, or are there more effective strategies to use?"
Fries, a Pittsburgh native, has a master's degree in chemistry from the University of South Florida, where he has been on faculty for two decades.
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Medical terminology is composed of a prefix, root word, and suffix: Prefix: A prefix is placed at the beginning of a word to modify or change its meaning. Basic Elements of a Medical Word Word Roots Most word roots are derived from Greek or Latin Two different roots can have the same meaning: ECG/EKG Cardia = Heart (Latin) Kardio = Heart (Greek) Word Roots Impossible to memorize all medical words Memorize the word parts and the whole word can be deciphered Exp: Gastritis = inflammation of the stomach Gastr/o = stomach -itis = inflammation Exp . A Prefix or suffix Meaning Origin language and etymology Example(s) a-, an-Denotes an absence of, without Ancient Greek -/- (a-/an-), without, not Apathy, Analgia ab-away Latin Abduction In case something is wrong or missing kindly let us know by leaving a . hiring hamad medical corporation birthday boy blam age high mileage 2013 chevy silverado My account ex boyfriend moved on quickly reddit; kubota la435 specs; great gatsby dog; 2000 subaru impreza l for sale; marvel create your own superhero unblocked; android face down silent mode; The suffix might indicate a disease, disorder, condition, procedure, process, specialty, test, or status. We think the likely answer to this clue is NEO. Psychologically and emotionally she may experience post trauma including tocophobia (phobia about childbirth), querelant reaction, puerperal panic, pathological fear of cot death, obsessional neurosis, grief, Postnatal affective disorders are comprised postnatal blues, postnatal depression, postpartum psychosis and mother infant relationship disorders including infanticide, child abuse and . The prefix cis-is Latin and means on this side of.Coined in 1994, cisgender began to be added to dictionaries in 2015 as a result of changes in the way gender is conceived and discussed. The dash that is usually found in the textbook does not appear in the prefix for this puzzle. "Question ID","Question","Discussion","Answer" "20031036","Histology--Hematopoietic, NOS: When both the path and clinical diagnoses simultaneously reflect reportable . Exercise 8 The Merck Manual This nineteenth century medical reference textbook, The Merck Manual has been adapted for users today and contains an online section on understanding medical terms - itis - Inflammation -itis inflammation -lepsy seizure or sudden attack -lexia condition of reading -lithotomy removal of stone -logist one who specializes in the study . prefixes. Sign up here. 9. Search: Itis Medical Term Words. the heart. Suffixes. Although paleo- does enter occasionally into medical usage, it is far less commonly encountered . Created. BUT I truly look forward to re-experience FFVI when it comes out next week. Suffixes. Also visit my page 918kaya apk ( forum .broadcasters-complain.net) read more. In medical terminology, the term premature tends to act as a prefix for a medical phrase. Search: What Does Rt Ov Mean On Ultrasound. It is important to spell and pronounce suffixes correctly.
This crossword clue Prefix with "natal" or "noir" was discovered last seen in the March 31 2020 at the Daily Themed Crossword. Suffixes are not always explicitly stated in the definition of a word. pleura, rib, side. Examples of terms starting with "neo-" include neonatal and neonate (the newborn), neoplasia and neoplasm (new growth = tumor ), etc. Medical Terminology. rectus capit is muscle, quadri cep s muscle, brachio ceph alic artery (supplies blood to the arm and head) cardi-, coron-.
photopsia (a condition of the eye in which someone sees flashes of light) plasm (o)-. It is a potentially life-threatening disorder characterized by hypertension, generalized edema, and proteinuria.
When combined, you can define a specific medical term Pronunciation Derivation And Definition * Uploaded By Robert Ludlum, the american illustrated medical dictionary a new and complete dictionary of the terms used in medicine surgery dentistry pharmacy chemistry and the kindred branches with . Sun in eighth house / Sun in 8th house of Navamsa. For example, you are probably familiar with the term tonsillitis, which is an inflammation of the tonsils. It usually indicates a location, direction, type, quality, or quantity. Their influence is believed to manifest in personal identity, needs, self-expression, and actions. Refine the search results by specifying the number of . amph-, amphi-. 08/31/2015. The prefix alters the meaning of the medical term. 45. eclampsia [e-klampse-ah] in pregnant women, the convulsive stage of preeclampsia-eclampsia syndrome; the convulsions are not attributable to other cerebral conditions such as epilepsy. Suffixes can alter the meaning of medical terms. The suffix brings meaning to the medical term and forms the end of the word. From the Greek "neos", new, young, fresh, recent. The native is always concerned about joint asset and accumulation of joint asset. . Language - Other. Start studying Medical Terminology - Prefixes for Natal. Search: Itis Medical Term Words. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Pertaining to an abnormal condition in which the body tissues contain the accumulation of fluid (edematous) Pertaining to the abnormal condition of the skin and mucous membranes caused by the oxygen deficiency in the blood (cyanotic) Surgical excision, Surgical removal, resection (vasectomy) Destruction, seperation, breakdown, loosening (lipolysis) Medical Terminology: Prefix = Beginning and is often the descriptive part of the word; Root = Middle and is often the subject of the word; Suffix = Ending and often brings meaning to the word. the lungs. First, prefixes and suffixes, most of which are derived from ancient Greek or classical Latin, have a droppable -o-. It is important to spell and pronounce prefixes correctly. Alternatively, the suffix may simply make the word a noun or adjective. However, the root word tonsilla is a Latin word that refers to . Medical TERMINOLOGY. The key idea with being able to memorize med terms and vocabulary words is the create pictures for those words. Many prefixes that you find in medical terms are common to English language prefixes. Pre means "before." Prefixes may also indicate a location, number, or time. Learning these base terms may help you further understand medical terminology.
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a-: Prefix much employed in the health sciences indicating "not, without, -less" as, for examples, in alexia (not read), aphagia (not eat), aphonia (not voice . For prefixes in general use in English see List of Prefixes.If you want to know which are Greek and which are Latin, see Greek and Latin Prefixes.It lists most of the same prefixes, but it shows their origins and is . bronch itis (inflammation in the lungs) capit-, cep-, ceph-. So word parts provide the meaning of myocarditis: inflammation of the heart muscle There are four different types of tissues in animals: connective, muscle, nervous, and epithelial MEDICAL & DENTAL DICTIONARIES & GLOSSARIES IN ENGLISH Medical Dictionaries for Healthcare Professionals with Text & Images Word root list with Choose from 500 different sets of . . Search: Karmic Relationship Zodiac Signs. Abbreviations and acronyms | Medical terminology | Add a link | Translate | Softwares Search Entrez NCBI Web Site ------------- PubMed Gene LocusLink Taxonomy Protein Nucleotide Structure Genome Books CancerChromosomes Conserved Domains 3D Domains GEO Profiles GEO Datasets HomoloGene Journals MeSH NLM Catalog OMIM PMC PopSet PubChem BioAssay . Medical Terminology Prefixes Bess Tsaouse Common Prefixes used in medical terminology. By the way, a prefix is added to the beginning of a word to influence the meaning of that term. For LPN school. Below are all possible answers to this clue ordered by its rank. That's It! denoting something as different, or as an addition. Prefix. intrabronchial= Within the bronchi or bronchial tubes. 10. The opposite of neo- is paleo-. Create your own flash cards! It can appear in front of various terms like in 'premature birth' and 'premature ejaculation.'. A natal chart consultation will provide insight into the multifaceted layers of your psyche and progress you on the journey to wisdom and growth In every 60-minute consultation, I: 1 The chart below is set for the Republic of Italy - 1946: Famous people: Benito Mussolini: 29 Jul 1883 13 To draw up a Sidereal Solar Return Chart In Tamil . FF VI. With both, you should recognize hundreds of medical terms!
Medical terms always end with a suffix. They are basically 6 foot. Use Fake Name Generator protect your privacy by only using your true identity when absolutely necessary Select the Burner Phone feature 061 West Henryville, DE 07036-7107 7553 Arnold Street 42 115 Female names 42 115 Female names. Preeclampsia is a less severe, nonconvulsive form of . Ravenswood Medical Practice is a GP/Doctors practice in Ipswich. meta/phrenia Can you locate the two combining forms in this term? For example, "itis" means inflammation and "ectomy" means removal. The crossword clue possible answer is available in 3 letters.This answers first letter of which starts with N and can be found at the end of O. Professional. the head. Medical prefix: A prefix employed in medical terminology. natal: ( n'tl ), 1.
A good technique to help with memorization is the following: prefix that means outside medical terminology.
The prefix Meta means = Later in time. Now that you know the most common medical prefixes, learn a few medical suffixes for common procedures and conditions. It is important to spell and pronounce prefixes correctly. great cardi ac vein (a vein draining the heart muscle), coron ary artery. Sun, moon and mercury is neutral in eighth house . Which is the . plasminogen (a substance in blood plasma which becomes activated and forms plasmin) pleur (o)-. These are added to the beginning of a root or combining form to further expand the meaning of a medical term. Root wood: A root word is in the middle of the medical term, and it identifies the central meaning of . Medical words are often put together, cobbled from two or more building blocks. Origin of peri - <Greek, prefixal use of per (adv. intra- = situated within. Suffixes in medical terms are common to English language suffixes. Guardians are 74.1 in, or 1.881 m, according to Bungie.
Just review a little bit and you will have these words fully memorized come test day. 3 Prefix. Many prefixes that you find in medical terms are common to English language prefixes. Search: Natal Chart Book.
amnio-. They function as parts of two-point axes in connection with their opposing points. This crossword clue Prefix with "natal" or "conservative" was discovered last seen in the April 28 2022 at the Daily Pop Crosswords Crossword. Here is the list of commonly used medical prefixes which is definitely gonna help you in understanding the terms used by medical professionals especially in prescriptions given by doctors or pharmacists as well as many prefixes are used along with the medical abbreviations in the Investigation Forms that has to be performed in the diagnostic laboratories.. Pre means "before." Prefixes may also indicate a location, number, or time. Medical Terminology: Prefix = Beginning and is the descriptive part of the word; Root = Middle and is the subject of the word; Suffix = Ending and . Suffix: The ending part of a word that modifies the meaning of . 3. Prefix: When included, the prefix appears at the beginning of a medical term. Search: Natal Chart Book. Word roots, or root words, in medical terminology are the base part of the word. A random street, number, and postal code within the London city limits Addresses in Germany are written in a . The crossword clue Prefix for "natal" with 3 letters was last seen on the October 29, 2021. Natal: [geographical name] city and port on the Atlantic in northeastern Brazil population 803,739 #R##N##R##N# Note:#R##N# Natal serves as capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. You can easily improve your search by specifying the number of letters in the answer. This answers first letter of which starts with N and can be found at the end of O. Waking up from it's 5 month-long nap, Uranus hopes that had used the time it was in retrograde to consider the changes you needed to make in order to create more stability, security, and to allow more growth in those areas of your life, and are com: The Signs, The Marriage And The Karmic Law (Volume 1) (9781478359876): Mr This is where Karma Meets . You now know how to memorize the Intra Medical Term Prefix meaning and definition! In case something is wrong or missing kindly let us know by leaving a . liquid part of blood.
Please find below the Prefix with natal crossword clue answer and solution which is part of Daily Themed Crossword May 19 2022 Answers.Many other players have had difficulties withPrefix with natal that is why we have decided to share not only this crossword clue but all the Daily Themed Crossword Answers every single day. and preposition). study the medical root words, prefixes, and suffixes. pertaining to the membranous fetal sac (amnion) amniocentesis. By the time he was a teenager, Spanky knew he had a knack. More than . Root: central part of a word. You can contact this general practice using the phone number 01473 271122. Start studying Med term chapter 1 (1.1) Roots, suffixes, and prefixes. The term prenatal refers to t. By April 11, 2022 self-rising flour, buttermilk biscuits . medical examiner office in philadelphia; vital proteins collagen uk; mx5 specialists; Football; principal engineer google salary; upvc windows in spain; mediastar receiver price; dantian breathing; british sas in vietnam; kaizen mma cost; renogy 20000mah power bank; vcpkg visual studio not working; Opinion uw job classifications; school massage alloantigen, allopathy. View fullsize. Relating to the buttocks or nates. Description. Prefixes usually, but not always, indicate a location, time, or number. Embolism: An arterial blockage, often caused by a blood clot. madden 22 playbook database . The prefix alters the meaning of the medical term. Root: central part of a word.
Prefixes are located at the beginning of a medical term. For example, the endings -a, -e, -um, and -us . I haven't played FFVI since I was a child! 8. A vowel (usually the letter "o") may be added to the root to aid in pronunciation. I've been addicted to the Pixel Remaster games as they've been coming out, sometimes going so far as to playing them twice in a row because of the music and QOL improvements. Location/Code Province: All Provinces Eastern Cape Free State Gauteng KwaZulu-Natal Limpopo Mpumalanga North West Northern Cape Western Cape Mogale city, heritage manor, munsienvill $299,900 3 Bd 3 Ba 1,456 Sqft $206/Sqft Vacant Land / Plot 865-ref-828 for Sale in Groutville, Stanger R2,500,000 AgencyRef: 865-ref-828 null Near schools and other . Free Vedic Astrology Birth Chart Report, the most in-depth interpretation you will find online Indian Astrology provides free Hindu Vedic Astrology Birth chart, Love compatibility chart, daily, monthly, Annual Horoscope 2020 reading based on Moon Sign by Indian Vedic Astrologer Get your Birth Chart for free 0 degrees is suggested to calculate midpoints A natal chart . bronch (i)-. March 8, 2021 at 5:21 am. 3 The suffix usually indicates a specialty, test, procedure, function, condition/disorder, or status. Contusion: A bruise. Search: Natal Chart Book. Subject. Radiography (RT) RT involves using penetrating gamma- or X-radiation on materials and products to look for defects or examine internal or hidden features After an ultrasound examination, you Large patients are more difficult to image by ultrasound, because greater amounts of tissue weaken the sound waves as they pass deeper into the body Carotid .. lung. denoting something as positioned on both sides, describing both of two. Total Cards. Remember that if you're a Pre Med or Nursing Student studying to do well on your . These usually indicate time, number, color, location . Relating to birth. 2 Medical Terminology Suffixes Suffix Definition Suffix Definition Suffix Definition -able Capable-gnosis Knowledge-penia Lack of, deficiency-ac Pertaining to-grade A step-pepsia To digest-ad Pertaining to-graft Pencil, grafting knife-pexy Surgical fixation-age Related to-gram A weight, mark, record-phagia To eat-al Pertaining to-graph To write, record-phasia To speak peri - a prefix meaning "about" or "around" (perimeter, periscope), "enclosing" or "surrounding" (pericardium), and "near" (perigee, perihelion), appearing in loanwords from Greek (peripeteia); on this model, used in the formation of compound words (perimorph). Root: The root gives a term its essential meaning. ambi-. Level. The Anti- Vertex and the East Point (or Equatorial Ascendant ) have both been proposed as sensitive points acting as 'auxiliary Ascendants' (Maritha Pottenger). The word cisgender is the antonym of transgender. Just take both the picture for the word and the picture for the meaning or definition and visualize an interaction between the two as we did above. We think NEO is the possible answer on this clue. Please find below the Prefix with natal crossword clue answer and solution which is part of Daily Themed Crossword June 18 2022 Answers.Many other players have had difficulties withPrefix with natal that is why we have decided to share not only this crossword clue but all the Daily Themed Crossword Answers every single day.
Search: Karmic Relationship Zodiac Signs. Search: Itis Medical Term Words. Medical terminology is composed of a prefix, root word, and suffix: Prefix: A prefix is placed at the beginning of a word to modify or change its meaning. The crossword clue possible answer is available in 3 letters. Epidermis: The outer layer of the skin. Prefixes and suffixes The following is an alphabetical list of medical prefixes and suffixes, along with their meanings, origin, and an English example. ambidextrous. are located at the beginning of a medical term. A good technique to help with memorization is the following: Edema: Swelling caused by fluid accumulation. This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies.Most of them are combining forms in New Latin and hence international scientific . Osiris has a habit this and last season of showing up during important meetings with major characters:-Zavala and Caital-Mithrax and Saint-Ikora and Lakshmi.in all of those interactions, Osiris is the middle man, either observing or making some comments. Use our generator to create your chart or give a gift card Enter your date of birth to get generate your personal natal chart Vedic astrology is considered a sacred subject and Maharshi Parasara warned us against sharing this knowledge with unworthy people com) Used with permission We also have a birth chart generator that draws the chart using Koch houses and using . 11. Among these building blocks are the prefixes.
Answer (1 of 2): The medical term natal means about birth (nat means birth, and -al means about). Cisgender (sometimes cissexual or shortened to cis) describes a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth. First, prefixes and suffixes , most of which are derived from ancient Greek or classical Latin, have a droppable -o-. Neo- (prefix): Prefix meaning new. 2. The suffix might indicate a disease, disorder, condition, procedure, process, specialty, test, or status. Suffixes and prefixes are added to the root word to give it more meaning or modify its meaning. Click here to study/print these flashcards.
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